Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Ven. P. Petrus Claver Soc. Ies. Hisp. ...
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Accession number:
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69-650
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Record number:
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69-650-1
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JCB call number:
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HA748 D319v / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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Ven. P. Petrus Claver Soc. Ies. Hisp. ...
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Place image published:
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[Rome]
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Image publisher:
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[Generoso Salomoni]
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Image date:
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[1748]
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Image function:
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plate; preceding p. 1
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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25.5 cm. (platemark)
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Image dimension width:
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17.2 cm. (platemark)
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Page dimension height:
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26.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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19.9 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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Latin
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Description:
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Saint Pedro Claver holds a crucifix over his head and blesses or baptizes a man kneeling before him. Among the people with him are a black man [slave?] and native Americans with feathered headdresses. Also includes a church.
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Source creator:
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Degli Oddi, Longaro, 1685-1773
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Source Title:
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Vita del venerabil servo di Dio p. Pietro Claver della Compagnia di Gesu detto l'apostolo degli Etiopi cavata da' processi autentici formati per la sua canonizzazione
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Source place of publication:
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In Roma [Rome]
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Source publisher:
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Per Generoso Salomoni nella piazza di S. Ignazio
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Source date:
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MDCCXLVIII. [1748]
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notes:
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Claver, known as the patron saint of the slaves, was a Jesuit who baptized and cared for the slaves in Cartagena, present-day Colombia, working especially amongst the lepers and during a smallpox epidemic.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1969.
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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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