Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Siara
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Accession number:
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01631
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Record number:
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01631-51
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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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Siara
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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. 470
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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28.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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34.5 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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36.8 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 Ceará, a settlement on a river or coast. Includes black men driving oxen or cattle, men washing horses in the river, men on horseback, dwellings, fortifications, fences or palisades, and dog. 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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The capital of Ceará is the port city of Fortaleza, bisected by the Pajeú River. Originally the site of a fortress built by the Portuguese in 1603. In 1637 the Dutch destroyed the fort that was there and rebuilt Fort Schoonenborch in 1649. The Dutch held Ceará from 1637 to 1654. This image is derived from Frans Post's painting of the town (now lost). Post came to Brazil with forty-six other scholars, scientists, artists, and craftsmen in the company of Johan Maurits, Prince of Nassau-Siegen. This image relates to the Dutch and Portuguese struggles to retain possession of Brazil.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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References:
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Corrêa do Lago, B. Frans Post, p. 14; Edmundson, G. "The Dutch power in Brazil," English Historical Review (1900), p. 38-57
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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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Brazil--History--Dutch conquest, 1624-1654
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