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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03472
Record number:
03472-1
JCB call number:
F630 L742b / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Title page]
Creator 1:
Cornelis Claessen Dusent
Creator 1 role:
Sculpsit
Place image published:
Tot Leyden [Leiden]
Image publisher:
bij de Elzeviers.
Image date:
1630
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
27.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
31.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Title is enclosed within an aedicule or classical architectural element from which hang portraits of Dutch generals, Piet Heyn and Hendrick Corneliszoon Loncq. Also includes Corinthian columns, shells, fish, mythological half-fish half-man creatures [Tritons?] blowing horns or conch shells, vignettes showing Matança [Matanzas Bay, Cuba] and Olinda [Recife, Brazil], as well as scenes of a native American woman being hanged and a man being garroted. Vignette at bottom shows an allegorical figure of America wearing feathered headdress and riding on an armadillo offering food and precious jewels to a Flemish woman on a throne (identified as Foed Belg.) Includes lion, horse, globe, ships, and war materièl such as spears, swords, gun or musket with musket balls, cannons, cannon balls.
Source creator:
Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649
Source Title:
[Nieuwe wereldt ofte beschrijvinghe van West-Indien] Beschrijvinghe van West-Indien
Source place of publication:
Tot Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
bij de Elzeviers.
Source date:
1630
notes:
Laet was a director and historian of the Dutch West India Company (VOC).The Dutch expedition and victory on Sept. 8, 1628, in Matanzas Bay, Cuba, under the leadership of Heyn and Loncq led to the capture of the Spanish Silver fleet for the West India Company.The vignettes showing a woman [Queen Anacaona] being hanged and a man being garroted [Atahualpa or Atabalipa] are derived from Bartolomé de las Casas, [Brevissima relacion. Dutch], Spieghel der Spaenscher tyrannye in West Indien, first published with illustrations in a Dutch translation in Amsterdam, 1596.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
References:
http://www.theoi.co… (Apr. 2007)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Emblems--America

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