Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Commodore Byron Conversing with a Patagonian Woman.

Accession number: 
07194
Record number: 
07194-1
JCB call number: 
D773 H673a
Image title: 
Commodore Byron Conversing with a Patagonian Woman.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[F. Newbery]
Image date: 
[1773]
Image function: 
plate; vol. 3, following p. 10
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
15.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
9.9 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.7 cm.
Page dimension width: 
12.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
European man gives jewelry to a Patagonian or native American giant and her son.
Source Title: 
An historical account of all the voyages round the world performed by English navigators ... Volume the third
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for F. Newbery, the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard
Source date: 
MDCCLXXIII. [1773]
notes: 
In 1766, Commodore John Byron returned to London after circumnavigating the world. Word soon leaked out that the crew had discovered nine-foot tall Patagonian giants. Earlier explorers had also reported a race of giants in Patagonia. As early as the 1520s, Antonio Pigafetta had written of giants living in South America. Magellan, with whom Pigafetta sailed, gave the giants the name "Patagons" because of their big feet, thus naming the southern tip of South America. Volumes 1 and 2 (and perhaps vols. 3 and 4) of this series were edited by David Henry.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America
Subject headings: 
Patagonians