Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Title page]
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Accession number:
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04206
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Record number:
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04206-2
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JCB call number:
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J De Bry GV Abridg 1631 Ger
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Image title:
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[Title page]
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Place image published:
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[Frankfurt am Main]
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Image publisher:
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Matthaeum Merian
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Image date:
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1631
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Image function:
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title page
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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31.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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21.2 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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37.1 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22.8 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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German, Latin
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Description:
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An allegorical figure of America as a woman seated upon the vegetable and mineral riches of the New World. The shell at center containing title of book is flanked by a native American man and woman. At the bottom is a hemisphere showing North and South America; the globe is flanked by two native American men. Includes an alligator, fruit, shells, treasures represented by vessels or pots, baskets, fan, feathered headdress and garments, parrot, and angels (one holding a crown and laurel wreath, the other holding the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece).
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Source creator:
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Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent.
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Source Title:
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Newe Welt und Americanische Historien ...
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Source place of publication:
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zu Franctfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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Source publisher:
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Durch Matthaeum Merian, Buchändlern un Kunststechern
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Source date:
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MDCXXXI. [1631]
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notes:
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Theodor de Bry and his sons issued a series of books on voyages to America in fifteen parts between 1590 and 1634. In 1631, Gottfried (a printer who had worked on the de Bry volumes) issued this one-volume condensation of all the voyages. He reused many of the original plates from the original volumes, but supplemented them with new ones.This title page was later re-engraved for his 1655 edition.
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Time Period:
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1601-1650
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1869.
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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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geographic area:
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Guianas
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geographic area:
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North America
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Geography, maps, city views and plans
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Emblems--America
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