COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01594
Record number:
01594-4
JCB call number:
E665 R674h
Image title:
Paysage de la Province de Bemarin au Royaume d'Apalache
Place image published:
[Rotterdam]
Image publisher:
[Chez Arnout Leers]
Image date:
[1665]
Image function:
plate; between pp. 412-413
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21.8 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
30.1 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
22.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
30.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
View of part of the mythical kingdom of "Apalache." Built environment includes a church, palace, temple of the sun. Decorative elements include French royal coat of arms. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key below.
Source creator:
Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683
Source Title:
Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique
Source place of publication:
A Roterdam [Rotterdam]
Source publisher:
Chez Arnout Leers
Source date:
M.DC. LXV [1665]
notes:
Depicts Melilot, the mythical capital of Apalache. This idealized view was meant to encourage Protestant settlement in America. According to Rochefort, Apalache, supposedly located in present-day Florida or Georgia, was the home of European Protestants who had been driven from their Virginia colony. Text describes religious practices that are illustrated. This may be the first printed illustration of a North American utopian city.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Heraldry
References exhibitions:
Cf. Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Fig. 43; Danforth, S. View of America, item 22
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1847.
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 headings:
Utopias
Paysage de la Province de Bemarin au Royaume d'Apalache
