COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
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JCB Archive of Early American Images
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Accession number:
09277
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09277
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Record number:
09277-3
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09277-3
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JCB call number:
E799 L311vr1 / 2-SIZE
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E799 L311vr1 / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
[Title page]
image_title
[Title page]
Image title
false
Creator 1:
Jean Michel Moreau
creator1
Jean Michel Moreau
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false
Creator 1 dates:
1741-1814
creator1_dates
1741-1814
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false
Creator 1 role:
delt.
creator1_role
delt.
Creator 1 role
false
Creator 2:
Heath
creator2
Heath
Creator 2
false
Creator 2 role:
sculpt.
creator2_role
sculpt.
Creator 2 role
false
Place image published:
[London]
place_image_published
[London]
Place image published
false
Image publisher:
G. G. & J. Robinson
image_publisher
G. G. & J. Robinson
Image publisher
false
Image date:
1798
image_date
1798
Image date
false
Image function:
engraved title page; atlas
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engraved title page; atlas
Image function
false
Technique:
engraving
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engraving
Technique
false
Image dimension height:
30.1 cm.
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30.1 cm.
Image dimension height
false
Image dimension width:
20.1 cm.
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20.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
42.5 cm.
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42.5 cm.
Page dimension height
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Page dimension width:
26.2 cm.
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26.2 cm.
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Materials medium:
ink
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ink
Materials medium
false
Materials support:
paper
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paper
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Languages:
English
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English
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Description:
Map of the world surrounded by personifications of various activites involving scientific exploration and navigation. These include an angel holding an armillary sphere, a woman holding an oar or rudder [?] with a child holding a compass [?], a woman drawing a plant held up by a child, a palette, an artist's portfolio, a woman writing in a book, a child holding an anchor, angels holding an hour glass, a sextant, and using a spyglass [?]. Also includes a box, a ship's wheel, and native Americans, some of whom are dressed in furs or animal skins.
description
Map of the world surrounded by personifications of various activites involving scientific exploration and navigation. These include an angel holding an armillary sphere, a woman holding an oar or rudder [?] with a child holding a compass [?], a woman drawing a plant held up by a child, a palette, an artist's portfolio, a woman writing in a book, a child holding an anchor, angels holding an hour glass, a sextant, and using a spyglass [?]. Also includes a box, a ship's wheel, and native Americans, some of whom are dressed in furs or animal skins.
Description
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Source creator:
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
source_creator
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
Source creator
false
Source Title:
[Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde. English] A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788
source_title
[Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde. English] A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788
Source Title
false
Source place of publication:
London
source_place_of_publication
London
Source place of publication
false
Source publisher:
Printed by A. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; and T. Payne, Mews-gate, Castle-Street.
source_publisher
Printed by A. Hamilton, for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row; J. Edwards, Pall-Mall; and T. Payne, Mews-gate, Castle-Street.
Source publisher
false
Source date:
1798-99
source_date
1798-99
Source date
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notes:
The French decided to mount a scientific and exploration voyage to rival that of Captain James Cook. Two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under La Perouse's command left France in August 1785. They spent the summer of 1786 off the coasts of Alaska looking for a northwest passage then sailed down the west coast of North America in August and September 1786. In September they crossed the Pacific Ocean to Asia. They first sailed north and then south to Australia which they reached in January 1788. In mid-March both ships were wrecked on a coral reef near the island of Vanikoro with all hands lost. Thirty years later remains were found, and islanders reported that survivors had built a boat and headed out to sea, but none were ever heard from again.La Perouse sent letters back to Europe from Manila, Macao, and Australia; this is how the voyage is known. In October 1787 he had also sent a Russian-speaking officer, Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, Baron de Lesseps (1766-1834) overland from Kamchatka with documents, charts, and journals. De Lesseps traveled through Siberia to St. Petersburg and then to Paris, arriving late in 1788. In May 1791, when it seemed clear that La Pérouse would not return, the revolutionary government commissioned former army officer Louis Antoine Milet-Mureau (1756-1825) to edit a book from these materials, which was published in Paris in four volumes with an atlas in 1797. A second French edition was required the following year, and English translations appeared in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1807; German and Dutch editions were published between 1799 and 1804.
notes
The French decided to mount a scientific and exploration voyage to rival that of Captain James Cook. Two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under La Perouse's command left France in August 1785. They spent the summer of 1786 off the coasts of Alaska looking for a northwest passage then sailed down the west coast of North America in August and September 1786. In September they crossed the Pacific Ocean to Asia. They first sailed north and then south to Australia which they reached in January 1788. In mid-March both ships were wrecked on a coral reef near the island of Vanikoro with all hands lost. Thirty years later remains were found, and islanders reported that survivors had built a boat and headed out to sea, but none were ever heard from again.La Perouse sent letters back to Europe from Manila, Macao, and Australia; this is how the voyage is known. In October 1787 he had also sent a Russian-speaking officer, Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, Baron de Lesseps (1766-1834) overland from Kamchatka with documents, charts, and journals. De Lesseps traveled through Siberia to St. Petersburg and then to Paris, arriving late in 1788. In May 1791, when it seemed clear that La Pérouse would not return, the revolutionary government commissioned former army officer Louis Antoine Milet-Mureau (1756-1825) to edit a book from these materials, which was published in Paris in four volumes with an atlas in 1797. A second French edition was required the following year, and English translations appeared in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1807; German and Dutch editions were published between 1799 and 1804.
notes
false
Time Period:
1751-1800
time_period
1751-1800
Time Period
false
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
provenance_or_donor
Acquired before 1870.
Provenance/Donor
false
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
owner_and_copyright
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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false
geographic area:
Brazil
geographic_areas
Brazil
geographic area
false
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
geographic_areas
Caribbean Islands
geographic area
false
geographic area:
Guianas
geographic_areas
Guianas
geographic area
false
geographic area:
North America
geographic_areas
North America
geographic area
false
geographic area:
Spanish America
geographic_areas
Spanish America
geographic area
false
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
subject_groups
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area
false
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
subject_groups
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area
false
Subject headings:
Emblems
subject_heads
Emblems
Subject headings
false
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
subject_heads
Indians of North America
Subject headings
false