Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [View of the town of Regla, Cuba?]
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Accession number:
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07-69
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Record number:
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07-69-5
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JCB call number:
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J731 E57p
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Image title:
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[View of the town of Regla, Cuba?]
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Place image published:
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[Augsburg]
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Image publisher:
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[C.P. Maj Mart Engelbrecht excud. A.V (i.e. Augsburg)]
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Image date:
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[between 1731 and 1756]
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Image function:
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peep show view 5
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Technique:
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engraving, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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9.5 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.8 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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9.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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14 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Inscription:
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u.c. verso: 5
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Description:
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View of a small town on a bay. Includes dwellings, church, and ships or sailboats as well as some fortification in the form of a wall.
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Source creator:
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Engelbrecht, Martin, 1684-1756
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Source Title:
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[Perspectivische vorstellung der Statt und Bestung Havana in West Indien]
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Source place of publication:
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[Augsburg]
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Source publisher:
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[C.P. Maj Mart Engelbrecht excud. A.V (i.e. Augsburg)]
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Source date:
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[between 1731 and 1756]
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notes:
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This may be a view of the present-day town of Regla across the bay from Havana, Cuba. Regla grew up around the hermitage of Nuestra Senora de Regla (established 1690).This is number 5 in a series of 6 cut-away peep show views of the port and hills of Havana before the partial destruction of the city by the British in 1762.Engelbrecht began producing peep shows in conjunction with fellow artists, Jeremias Wachsmuth (1711-1771) and David Nessenthaler (1717-1766). Most of these peepshows appear after 1731. Engelbrecht died in 1756.This image is derived from Arnoldus Montanus, De nieuwe en onbekende Weereld, Amsterdam, 1671.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 2006.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Geography, maps, city views and plans
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Subject headings:
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Havana Bay (Cuba)
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Subject headings:
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Peep shows--Germany--18th century
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