Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Copper Ingenio.

Accession number: 
69-206
Record number: 
69-206-15
JCB call number: 
D824 S354t / 1-SIZE
Image title: 
Copper Ingenio.
Creator 1: 
Peter Schmidtmeyer
Creator 1 role: 
sketched by
Creator 2: 
George Scharf the elder
Creator 2 dates: 
1788-1860
Creator 2 role: 
on Stone by
Creator 3: 
Rowney & Forster
Creator 3 role: 
Printed by
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green]
Image date: 
[1824]
Image function: 
plate 15; following p. 258
Technique: 
lithograph
Image dimension height: 
16.3 cm.
Image dimension width: 
24.3 cm.
Page dimension height: 
26.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
20.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Men engage in the mining and smelting of copper. Includes furnace, shed, bellows, donkeys or asses, overseer, and picks.
Source creator: 
Schmidtmeyer, Peter
Source Title: 
Travels into Chile, over the Andes, in the years 1820 and 1821, with some sketches of the productions and agriculture; mines and metallurgy; inhabitants, history, and other features, of America; particularly of Chile, and Arauco.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed by S. McDowall, 95, Leadenhall Street, for the author; and published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, Paternoster Row.
Source date: 
1824
notes: 
Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1969.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Copper miners--Chile
Subject headings: 
Copper mines and mining--Chile
Subject headings: 
Copper--Chile