COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02318
Record number:
02318-14
JCB call number:
B737 G216h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Floridiennes, qui ayant perdu leurs maris, a la guerre, viennent implorer l'asistance du roy. Hermafrodites, déstinez a servir les malades, et a enterrer les morts.
Creator 1:
B. Picart
Creator 1 role:
Inv.
Creator 2:
Claude-Augustin Duflos
Creator 2 dates:
1700-1786
Creator 2 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jean Frederic Bernard]
Image date:
[1737]
Image function:
plate; vol. 2, following p. 178
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
20.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
17 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native American women weep and mourn before their chief who wears a feathered headdress and pectoral or breastplate. Includes tattoos, guns or muskets, bows, and war club. In the background, men carry the sick on litters or on their backs.
Source creator:
Vega, Garcilaso de la, 1539-1616
Source Title:
Histoire des Yncas rois du Perou, Depuis le premier Ynca Manco Capac ... jusqu'a Atahualpa dernier Ynca: ... Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Chez Jean Frederic Bernard
Source date:
MDCCXXXVII [1737]
notes:
This image is derived from Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 2, pt. 2, plate 18, and describes the widows of men killed in warfare who petition the chief for their livelihood and to avenge their husbands. The background image is derived from Theodor de Bry's America, Pt. 2, pt. 2, plate 17 and describes hermaphrodites who are shunned by the natives, but used to carry supplies and victims of warfare, wounded, sick, or dead, either on their backs or on litters made of reed mats. The artist may be Bernard Picart, 1673-1733, a French painter, draughtsman, and engraver, who also worked in the Netherlands.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1851.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America--Rites and ceremonies
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