Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [The New Land]
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Accession number:
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31747
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Record number:
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31747-1
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JCB call number:
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H586 F228i
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Image title:
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[The New Land]
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Place image published:
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[Venice]
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Image publisher:
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[Giovanni di Gara]
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Image date:
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[1586]
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Image function:
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illustration; verso leaf [33]
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Technique:
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woodcut
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Image dimension height:
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4 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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6.2 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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14.8 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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9.5 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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Hebrew
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Description:
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Map of the "new land," or America.
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Source creator:
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Farissol, Abraham ben Mordecai, ca. 1451-ca. 1525
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Source Title:
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[Igeret Orhot 'olam ha-melamedet adam de'at helke ha-z' aklimim.] [Iggeret Orhet 'Olam]
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Source place of publication:
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[Venice]
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Source publisher:
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[Giovanni di Gara]
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Source date:
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[1586]
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notes:
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Farissol's work is the first mention of the discovery of the New World in Hebrew and this crude "map" represents his depiction of the new area of habitation found by Christopher Columbus in 1492. He describes Columbus's men sailing along its shores; seeing "its exceeding large size, they called it, because of its great length and breadth, 'The New World.'"
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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References:
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http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/loc/loc12b.html (Mar. 2007)
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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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America--Maps
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