COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01631
Record number:
01631-89
JCB call number:
F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Cartagena
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jacob Meurs]
Image date:
[1671]
Image function:
plate; following p. 284
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
27.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
34 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height:
31.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
37 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of the harbor at Cartagena, in present-day Colombia. Includes ships, boats, dwellings, fortifications, churches, and chain across the mouth of the harbor.
Source creator:
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title:
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date:
1671
notes:
In the late sixteenth century, Cartagena was attacked by both English (Drake, Hawkins) and French (Cote, Baal) pirates/privateers. The Spanish crown responded to these threats in the seventeenth century by building very extensive fortifications. Its defenses were still strong enough in 1741 to withstand the siege made by the English Admiral Edward Vernon.
Time Period:
1651-1700
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:
Cartagena (Colombia)--Description and travel
Cartagena
