MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0769
Record number:
0769-1
JCB call number:
E658 R674h (copy 1)
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
[Rotterdam]
Image publisher:
Chez Arnould Leers
Image date:
[1658]
Image function:
added engraved title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
13.8 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
23.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
16.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
An allegorical figure of Europe as a crowned woman receives tribute of plants and animals from three native Americans. Decorative elements include an orb and a priest holding an open book.
Source creator:
Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683
Source Title:
Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. ...
Source place of publication:
Roterdam [Rotterdam]
Source publisher:
Chez Arnould Leers
Source date:
M.DC.LVIII [1658]
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Antilles, Lesser--Description and travel

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