COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01595
Record number:
01595-2
JCB call number:
E775 H673d
Image title:
Plan de la Vera=Cruz Avec les Isles de St. Jean du Luz ...
Place image published:
[Trevoux]
Image publisher:
[la Compagnie]
Image date:
[1775]
Image function:
fold-out plate 5; vol. 1, following p. 260
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
21.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
24 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Map of the city of Veracruz and the fortress of San Juan de Ulúa (here called St. Jean du Luz). Cartographic elements include compass rose, scale, locations of customs house, governor's palace, and fortress. Also includes ships.
Source Title:
Histoire des aventuriers flibustiers qui se sont signalés dans les Indes; contenant ce qu'ils y ont fait de remarquable, avec la vie, les mœurs & les coutumes des boucaniers, & les habitans de St. Domingue & de la Tortue ...
Source place of publication:
A Trevoux
Source publisher:
par la Compagnie.
Source date:
M.DCC.LXXV. [1775]
notes:
Hernán Cortés founded Veracruz in 1519; it was the port where the silver from Mexican mines was loaded onto the Spanish treasure fleet. The fortress in the harbor is San Juan de Ulúa. In 1683, 600 men under the command of the pirates, Laurens de Graff and Michel de Grammont, looted and terrorized the city of 5,000 inhabitants.Vols. 1-2, by Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin, are a translation by de Frontignières of: Piratas de la America. Cologne, 1681, itself a translation of: De Americaensche zee-roovers. Amsterdam, 1678. French translation originally published Paris, 1686.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Veracruz (Veracruz-Llave, Mexico)--Maps
Subject headings:
Pirates
Subject headings:
Buccaneers
Plan de la Vera=Cruz Avec les Isles de St. Jean du Luz ...
