Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [top] Plan of the Harbour and Town of Porto Bello [bottom] Plan of the City of Quito

Accession number: 
04075
Record number: 
04075-1
JCB call number: 
B772 U42v
Image title: 
[top] Plan of the Harbour and Town of Porto Bello [bottom] Plan of the City of Quito
Creator 1: 
J. Mynde
Creator 1 dates: 
fl. 1740-1770
Creator 1 role: 
Sc.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[Lockyer Davis]
Image date: 
[1772]
Image function: 
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 92
Technique: 
etching, engraving
Image dimension height: 
25 cm.
Image dimension width: 
15.8 cm.
Page dimension height: 
20.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
26.9 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Plan of the harbor and town of Porto Bello in present-day Panama and a plan of the city of Quito in present-day Ecuador. Also includes at bottom, illustrations of people of Quito, a Spanish lady of Quito, a native American woman of high rank, an Indian barber, a mestizo, an Indian peasant and a common Indian woman with a child. Cartographic elements include compass rose, scale, indications of shoals or sea banks, and some topographical details. Items are numbered for identification in key at bottom.
Source creator: 
Ulloa, Antonio de, 1716-1795
Source Title: 
[Relación histórica del viage a la America meridional. English] A voyage to South America ... Vol. I
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for Lockyer Davis, in Holborn; Printer to the Royal Society
Source date: 
MDCCLXXII. [1772]
notes: 
The images for this image are derived from Ulloa, Relacíon histórica, Madrid, 1748. Image placed horizontally on page.
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: 
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Panama--Maps