COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06-104
Record number:
06-104-1
JCB call number:
D653 J11a
Image title:
Anthropometamorphosis
Creator 1:
Thomas Cross
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1645-1685
Creator 1 role:
Sculpsit
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[William Hunt]
Image date:
[1653]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Allegorical figure of a woman with many breasts who is surrounded by European and native people. Includes sun, moon, people covered in tattoos, fur or feathers, animals such as dog, mule, monkey, devil or spirit, angel, men dressed as jurors or judges, and tent. An explanation of the frontispiece is provided on the opposite page.
Source creator:
J. B. (John Bulwer), fl. 1648-1654
Source Title:
Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd: or, The artificiall changling historically presented ... fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed by William Hunt
Source date:
1653
notes:
Bulwer, a pioneer in the education of the deaf, writes here about cosmetic alterations of the human body and makes comparisons between contemporary fashions and those of savage and exotic people.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 2006.
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
Anthropometamorphosis
