COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
01618
Record number:
01618-1
JCB call number:
E667 R674h
Image title:
Paysage d'une partie de l'Ile de S. Christofle, avec un Crayon du Chasteau de Mr. le General
Place image published:
[Lyon]
Image publisher:
[Christofle Fourmy]
Image date:
[1667]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 2, preceding p. 1
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
14.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
A chateau and garden surrounded by a wall. Built environment includes dwellings, chapel, stables, munitions tower, and fountains. Also includes man speaking with black men who seem to be selling fruit at the side of the road. Decorative elements include French royal coat of arms. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key below.
Source creator:
Rochefort, Charles de, 1605-1683
Source Title:
[Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique] Histoire morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique. Tome second
Source place of publication:
A Lyon
Source publisher:
Chez Christofle Fourmy, ruë Merciere, à la Bibliotheque
Source date:
M.DC.LXVII [1667]
notes:
The chateau was built by General Philippe Lonvilliers de Poincy who was the autonomous ruler of the French colony at St. Christopher from 1640 to 1660. At right is the slave village, Angole [Angola].This image is derived from Rochefort, Histoire ... des iles Antilles, Rotterdam, 1665.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Heraldry
Subject matter:
St. Christopher, St. Kitts
References exhibitions:
Boucher, P. Nouvelles Frances, frontispiece
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1847.
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:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Poincy, Louis de, d. 1660
Subject headings:
West Indies--Description and travel
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