COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03016
Record number:
03016-2
JCB call number:
F682 V982c
Image title:
Brasilise suyker werken
Place image published:
[Utrecht]
Image publisher:
[Johannes Ribbius]
Image date:
[1682]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 6
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
29.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
21.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
31.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Different stages of sugar production. Built environment includes open-sided evaporating furnace, two grinding mills one driven by a waterwheel and one by oxen, forms for sugar loaves. Workers gather canes in fields of sugar canes. Two ox carts carry canes to mill. Items in the image are lettered for identification in a key above.
Source creator:
Vries, Simon de, b. 1630
Source Title:
Curieuse aenmerckingen der bysonderste Oost en West- Indische verwonderens - waerdige dingen
Source place of publication:
t'Utrecht
Source publisher:
By Johannes Ribbius, boeckverkooper in de korte Jansstraet
Source date:
M. DC. LXXXII. [1682]
Time Period:
1651-1700
References exhibitions:
Klooster, W. Dutch in the Americas, Fig. 3.1
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1865.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Brazil
Brasilise suyker werken
