COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
70-446
Record number:
70-446-1
JCB call number:
BA712 X7p
Image title:
V. Me. Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda ...
Creator 1:
Aciscio Antonio Palomino de Castro y Velasco
Creator 1 dates:
1655-1726
Creator 1 role:
Delineavit
Creator 2:
Gregorio Fosman y Medina
Creator 2 role:
sculpsit
Place image published:
Madrid
Image publisher:
[Blàs de Villa-Nueva]
Image date:
1711
Image function:
frontispiece; pt. 2
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Portrait of a nun writing in a book with quill and ink. Behind her stands a vision of the Virgin Mary standing on a crescent moon, her head encircled by stars.
Source creator:
Ximenez Samaniego, Joseph
Source Title:
Prologo y relacion de la vida de la Venerable Madre Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
Por Blàs de Villa-Nueva
Source date:
1712
notes:
Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda wrote the work, The city of God, a history of the Virgin Mary. She also reported that she had a memory of over five hundred spiritual visits to the various tribes of the American southwest during which time she converted the whole Indian population to Christianity without physically leaving Spain.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1970.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles
Subject headings:
María de Jesús, de Agreda, sor, 1602-1665
V. Me. Sor Maria de Jesus de Agreda ...
