COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
69-02
Record number:
69-02-1
JCB call number:
D823 .M462t
Image title:
Palace & great square in Rio de Janeiro.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown]
Image date:
[1823]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
etching, aquatint, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
10.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of the palace and great square of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. Includes a row of chained slaves, oxen-drawn cart, black women washing at a public tub, churches dwellings, governmental buildings.
Source creator:
Mawe, John, 1764-1829
Source Title:
Travels in the interior of Brazil, particularly in the gold and diamond districts of that country
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and sold by the author
Source date:
1823
notes:
Mawe is credited with being the first to describe the diamond and gold mines of Brazil. He was the first foreigner to be granted a license to visit the rich mining areas of Minas Gerais. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1968.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Description and travel
Palace & great square in Rio de Janeiro.
