Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: I. Tamaraca
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Accession number:
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01631
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Record number:
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01631-41
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JCB call number:
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F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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I. Tamaraca
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Jacob Meurs]
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Image date:
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[1671]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 390
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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27.4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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33.9 cm. [both pages]
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Page dimension height:
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31.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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37.2 cm. [both pages]
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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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Description:
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View of the settlement on the island of Itamaracá. Includes fortifications, palisades, dwellings, domestic animals such as oxen and dogs, ships being unloaded onto boats and the casks being unloaded onto shore. Items in the image are lettered for identification in key at bottom.
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Source creator:
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Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
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Source Title:
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De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
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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 Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
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Source date:
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1671
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notes:
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Text describes the this island as having the first plantation in Brazil and describes the main town, Concepcion. The fort, Forte Orange, was built by the Dutch in 1631 and rebuilt by the Portuguese in 1654. The town (also known as Villa do Santo Cosmo de Garazu or Igarazu) is presently in the metropolitan area of Recife, but was in the seventeenth century a more established settlement than Olinda.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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References:
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Edmundson, G. "The Dutch power in Brazil," English Historical Review (1900), p. 38-57; Corrêa do Lago, B. Frans Post, p. 60; http://www.magmarqueologia.pro.br/F_Orange.htm (July 2006)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1847.
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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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Brazil
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Geography, maps, city views and plans
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Subject headings:
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Pernambuco (Brazil)--Description and travel
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