MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01510
Record number:
01510-1
JCB call number:
B647 G574j
Image title:
[Title page]
Creator 1:
Wolfgang Kilian
Creator 1 dates:
1581-1662
Creator 1 role:
Scul.
Place image published:
[Munich]
Image publisher:
[Lucas Straub, for Johannes Wagner]
Image date:
1647
Image function:
added engraved title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
6 cm.
Page dimension height:
12.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
A European gentleman, the author, holding a map of Seville and San Lucar stands on the coast of the New World. Ships attack a native American in a canoe. Includes an alligator or crocodile, snake, crabs, birds, fruit, cannons, a crucifix planted on a prom
Source creator:
Gobeo de Victoria, Pedro, 1560-1630?
Source Title:
[Naufragio y peregrinacion. Latin] Joannis Bisselii è Societate Jesu, Argonauticon Americanorum, sive historiae periculorum Petri de Victoria ac Sociorum eius : libri XV
Source place of publication:
Monachii [Munich]
Source publisher:
Formis Lucae Straubii, Sumptibus Ioannis Wagneri Bibliopolae
Source date:
M. D C. XLVII [1647]
notes:
Victoria wrote this account, first published in 1610, of his journey to the New World and later of his experiences as a Jesuit in Peru.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems

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