MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0891
Record number:
0891-2
JCB call number:
E699 H515r
Image title:
[Dedicatory page]
Creator 1:
Jacobus Harrewijn
Creator 1 dates:
1662-after 1732
Creator 1 role:
fecit
Place image published:
[Brussels]
Image publisher:
[Lamberto Marchant]
Image date:
[1699]
Image function:
plate; preceding prologue
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
37.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
43.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
37.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
43.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Dedicatory page with two women who support a globe showing Africa and North and South America. One may be native American and represent North America. Also includes two rulers or monarchs, one with an elephant, the other with a horse. Also includes feathered headdresses and garment, rolls of tobacco, coins or gold, a large bird, alligator or lizard, bow, and arrows.
Source creator:
Hennepin, Louis, 17th cent.
Source Title:
Relacion de un pais que nuevamente se ha descubierto en la America septentrional
Source place of publication:
En Brusselas [Brussels]
Source publisher:
En Casa de Lamberto Marchant, Mercader de Libros
Source date:
M. DC. XCIX. [1699]
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Emblems

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