COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01897
Record number:
01897-2
JCB call number:
E667 D975h (copy 1)
Image title:
Sucrerie
Creator 1:
le Clerc
Creator 1 role:
F[ecit]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Thomas Iolly ]
Image date:
[1667]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 122
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
20.2 cm
Image dimension width:
34.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
23.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
37 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Sugar production. Built environment includes open-sided evaporating furnace, grinding mill driven by oxen, forms for sugar loaves, dwellings for the black workers, and a stone dwelling. Botanical details include stand of sugar canes, banana tree, "choux caraibes," coconut trees. Black men [slaves] work under supervision of man with stick. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key below.
Source creator:
Du Tertre, Jean Baptiste, 1610-1687
Source Title:
Histoire generale des Antilles habitées par les François ... Tome II
Source place of publication:
Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Thomas Iolly, au palais, en la Salle des Merciers, à la Palme, & aux Armes d'Hollande
Source date:
M. DC. LXVII. [1667]
notes:
Engraver is perhaps Sebastien Le Clerc (1637-1714), engraver and professor of geometry and perspective at the French Royal Academy.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1854.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Natural history--West Indies
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Brazil
Sucrerie
