COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07727
Record number:
07727-1
JCB call number:
E702 R415r
Image title:
Rio janeiro
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Estienne Roger]
Image date:
[1703]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 6
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
21.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
15.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Simplified bird's-eye view of São Sebastião do Rio de Janeiro and Guanabara Bay, Brazil. Includes compass rose, church, and settlement.
Source creator:
Renneville, Constantin de, ca. 1650-1723
Source Title:
Recueil des voyages qui ont servi a l'etablissement et aux progres de la Compagnie des Indes Orientales, ... tome second.
Source place of publication:
A Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Aux dépens d'Estienne Roger...
Source date:
M.D.CCIII [1703]
notes:
Guanabara Bay was discovered in 1502 by the Portuguese explorer Gaspar de Lemos. No significant European settlement took place until the French invaded in the middle of the 16th century. After the French were expelled in 1563, settlement was encouraged by the Portuguese, but only really increased in the late 17th century when gold was discovered nearby. This section of volume two is called Voiage des Hollandois autour du monde, sous la conduite du Général Olivier de Noort, par le Détroit de Magellan. Between 1598 and 1601 Oliver van Noort led four Dutch ships sponsored by Dutch merchants on a voyage through the Straits of Magellan. Their purpose was to cause trouble to the Spanish with whom they were at war, to create commerce, and if possible, to circumnavigate the globe. Only one of the ships completed the circumnavigation. Van Noort's ships entered Rio on February 9, 1599.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1927.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)--Description and travel
Rio janeiro
