Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Vliegende Springhanen
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Accession number:
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03713
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Record number:
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03713-8
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JCB call number:
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D700 G133n
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Image title:
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Vliegende Springhanen
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Creator 1:
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Thomas Doesburgh
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Creator 1 dates:
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fl. 1692-1712
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Creator 1 role:
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fe[cit]
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsveld, Philip Verbeek & Johannes Lamsveld]
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Image date:
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[1700]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 336
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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17.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.7 cm
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Page dimension height:
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18.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.4 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Dutch
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Description:
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Men walk through a field devasted by locusts or grasshoppers. In the foreground, a field lies in waste and trees are bare of leaves. Includes a pack mule.
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Source creator:
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Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656
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Source Title:
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[English-American his travail by sea and land. Dutch] Nieuwe ende seer naeuwkeurige reyse door de Spaensche West-Indien ...
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Source place of publication:
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t' Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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By Willem de Coup, Willem Lamsvelt, Philip Verbeek en Johannes Lamsvelt, Boekverkoopers
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Source date:
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1700
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notes:
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Text describes a plague of locusts or grasshoppers which covered the road causing traveling mules to startle and which destroyed crops of indigo and sugar cane. The magistrate ordered the native Americans to go out into the fields and make noise to frighten the insects away.Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar, returned to England after several decades in Spanish America, became a Protestant and a principal advisor to Oliver Cromwell.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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Subject matter:
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natural phenomena
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1870.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Crop pests
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