Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Ostium flumines Paraybae

Accession number: 
01631
Record number: 
01631-43
JCB call number: 
F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title: 
Ostium flumines Paraybae
Place image published: 
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher: 
[Jacob Meurs]
Image date: 
[1671]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 424
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
28.6 cm.
Image dimension width: 
34.9 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height: 
31.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
37 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
View near the mouth of the Paraiba River. Includes fortifications, ships, dwelling, fishermen setting a seine net, men transporting goods by ox-cart, and men herding domestic animals such as sheep, goats, and cattle. Black men and women [slaves?] carry goods and pull in the nets. One man smokes a pipe.
Source creator: 
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title: 
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication: 
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher: 
By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date: 
1671
notes: 
Text describes Fort Margareta or Margarida, the Dutch name for Fortaleza Santa Catarina which was built by the Portuguese in 1589 and was captured by the Dutch in 1634.
Time Period: 
1651-1700
References: 
Edmundson, G. "The Dutch power in Brazil," English Historical Review (1900), p. 38-57; http://users.wirelessfrontier.net/~acree/ymapbrazil.html (July 2006)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Brazil
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings: 
Brazil--History--Dutch conquest, 1624-1654