Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Foire de Porto Bello
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Accession number:
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01564
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Record number:
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01564-11
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JCB call number:
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D720 G133n
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Image title:
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Foire de Porto Bello
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Creator 1:
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A. Aveline
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Creator 1 role:
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sculp.
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Paul Marret]
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Image date:
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[1720]
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Image function:
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fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 334
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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14 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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22 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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16.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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24 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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French
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Description:
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Market day or fair in Portobello, Panama. Includes native Americans unloading goods from boats, men weighting and selling goods, dwellings, casks, chest, market stalls, settlement, fleet of ships being saluted from fortifications, carts, and donkeys.
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Source creator:
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Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656
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Source Title:
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[New survey of the West Indies. French] Nouvelle relation, contenant les Voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne ...
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Source place of publication:
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A Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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Chez Paul Marret, dans le Beurs-straat, proche le Dam à la Renommée
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Source date:
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M. DCCXX. [1720]
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notes:
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Author describes how the prices of goods and number of people increase as soon as the Spanish fleet arrived in Portobello. Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar, returned to England after several decades in Spanish America, became a Protestant and a principal advisor to Oliver Cromwell.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1866.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians of Central America
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