MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
8984
Record number:
08984-52
JCB call number:
F706 A111n
Image title:
[Shipbuilding]
Place image published:
[Leiden]
Image publisher:
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date:
[1707]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 6, [part 3], following p. 24
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
12.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Shipbuilding in Veragua. Men saw planks and construct a ship. In the background, a shipwrecked vessel lies in the ocean, men build dwellings and sow fields. Includes boat building tools such as adzes, axes, pitch cooking over a fire, cross-saw, pliers, mallet, and anvil.
Source Title:
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1492 tot 1499
Source place of publication:
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date:
1707
notes:
Members of Diego de Nicuesa's expedition to Panama in 1509 were forced to build a new vessel re-using material from their ship which was wrecked under their commander, Lope de Olaño, who destroyed his fleet to keep his men from deserting while he looked for the mouth of the Veragua River. This ship was the first to be built by Europeans in the New World.See also Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 4, plate 19.This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Aankomst van Jean d'Ezquebel ter Bevolking van Jamaica, door den Ammiraal Diego Kolumbus, Leiden, 1706.This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1849.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Shipbuilding
Subject headings:
Conquerors--Panama

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