COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04820
Record number:
04820-6
JCB call number:
F618 N818b oblong (copy 1)
Image title:
I. S. Sebastiaen
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Michiel Colijn]
Image date:
[1618]
Image function:
plate; p. 15
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
22.3 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
17.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
23 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
View of the Ilha de São Sebastiao, off present-day Brazil. Includes four ships, men catching fish in nets, men rowing boats, men repairing a boat. Items are lettered for explanation in key above image.
Source creator:
Noort, Olivier van, 1558 or 9-1627
Source Title:
[Beschryvinghe van de voyagie om den geheelen werelt cloot] Beschrijvinge vande voyagie om den geheelen werelt-kloot
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Michiel Colijn, boeckverkooper op't vvater, aen de Koorn-Marckt, in't Huys-Boek
Source date:
1618
notes:
The Ilha de São Sebastiao is part of an archipelago off the southern coast of Brazil 210 miles from Rio de Janeiro. It was discovered on January 20, 1502, by Amerigo Vespucci. Vespucci named it for St. Sebastian whose day is January 20. Van Noort's ships
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
São Sebastião Island (Brazil)--Description and travel
I. S. Sebastiaen
