MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02951
Record number:
02951-3
JCB call number:
F691 S839z
Image title:
[Castaways]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jan ten Hoorn]
Image date:
[1691]
Image function:
plate; following p. 90
Technique:
etching, engraving
Image dimension height:
16 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Sailors row a boat and use a bowl to bail water from it.
Source creator:
Sterre, Dionysius van der, d. 1691
Source Title:
Zeer aanmerkelijke reysen gedaan door Jan Erasmus Reining, meest in de West-Indien
Source place of publication:
t' Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Jan ten Hoorn, boekverkooper ober 't Oude Heere Logement in den history-Schiver
Source date:
1691
notes:
Jan Erasmus Reining was a Dutch pirate who, under the command of Jacob Binckes, defended the island of Tobago in February 1677 from an attack by the French privateer, Jean d'Estree. A year later, d'Estree successfully captured the island and Reining escaped to Curaçao. Image title taken from marginal gloss.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1861.
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 headings:
Pirates

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