COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
68-393
Record number:
68-393-001
JCB call number:
E783 R274h
Image title:
Ouragan aux Antilles.
Creator 1:
de la Rue
Creator 1 role:
Sc
Place image published:
[Geneva]
Image publisher:
[Jean-Léonard Pellet]
Image date:
1783
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.8 cm
Image dimension width:
8.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.4 cm
Page dimension width:
11.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
View of a hurricane in the Antilles or Caribbean. A woman clutches her baby and tries to protect herself and another children from a house blowing down on top of them. A body lies under the wreckage of some timber. Other people cower in the background.
Source creator:
Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796
Source Title:
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes ... tome sixième
Source place of publication:
Geneva
Source publisher:
chez Jean-Léonard Pellet, imprimeur de la ville & de l'Académie
Source date:
1783
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1968.
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 headings:
Hurricanes--Caribbean area
Ouragan aux Antilles.
