COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09745
Record number:
09745-7
JCB call number:
E791 P793r / 3-SIZE
Image title:
Vue du Cap Francois, Isle St. Domingue, prise du Chemin de l'embarcadère de la petite Anse.
Creator 1:
Fernand de la Bruniere
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
Nicolas Ponce
Creator 2 dates:
1746-1831
Creator 2 role:
Excudit.
Place image published:
Paris
Image publisher:
chez M. Moreau de St. Méry, rue Plâtriere No. 12, et chez M. Ponce ...
Image date:
[1791]
Image function:
plate 1
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
24 cm.
Image dimension width:
58.5 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height:
47.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
63 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
View of Cap François or Cap Haïtien in present-day Haiti. Includes dwellings, church, men fishing with seine nets, a painter painting the scene under a parasol, servant and horse, horse-drawn carriage, ships, and boats in the harbor. Items in the image are identified with bird symbols in key below.
Source creator:
Ponce, Nicolas, 1746-1831
Source Title:
Recueil de vues des lieux principaux de la colonie françoise de Saint-Domingue
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez M. Moreau de Saint-Méry, ... M. Ponce, ... M. Phelipeau
Source date:
1791
notes:
Bolstered by slave labor and the lucrative sugar industry, Cap François, now known as Cap-Haïtien, became the cultural capital of Saint Domingue at the end of the eighteenth century.Also attributed to Médéric Louis Elie Moreau de Saint-Méry.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1868.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Cap-Haïtien (Haiti)--Description and travel
Vue du Cap Francois, Isle St. Domingue, prise du Chemin de l'embarcadère de la petite Anse...
