COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06302
Record number:
06302-2
JCB call number:
JA777 O44g copy 1
Image title:
Friedensthal in St. Croix ...
Creator 1:
G. P. Nussbiegel
Creator 1 role:
Sc.
Place image published:
Nor. [Nuremberg?]
Image publisher:
[Christian Friedrich Laux & heirs of Weidmann]
Image date:
[1777]
Image function:
fold-out plate; at front
Technique:
etching, engraving
Image dimension height:
17.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
25.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
35.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
View of the Moravian mission at Friedensthal in St. Croix. At left is the church of the Moravian Society, the living quarters of the missionaries is in the background, and at right is a "Negro hut." Includes black men and women going to church, a group of women conversing in a graveyard, and palm trees.
Source creator:
Oldendorp, C. G. A. (Christian Georg Andreas), 1721-1787
Source Title:
[Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder auf den Caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan] C.G.A. Oldendorps Geschichte der Mission der Evangelischen Brüder auf den caraibischen Inseln S. Thomas, S. Croix und S. Jan
Source place of publication:
Barby
Source publisher:
bey Christian Friedrich Laux, und in Leipzig in Commission bey Weidmanns Erben und Reich
Source date:
1777
notes:
This work describes the establishment of the first Moravian mission in the Danish West Indies. Oldendorp was in the West Indies from 1767 to 1769. Friedensthal was purchased by the Brethren in 1751 and was the site of the Moravian church on St. Croix. The graveyard is identified in the engraving of Friedensthal from a distance.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Moravian Church -- Missions -- Virgin Islands of the United States
Friedensthal in St. Croix ...
