MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04198
Record number:
04198-003
JCB call number:
H507 V581vA
Image title:
[Native Americans battle]
Creator 1:
Hans Burgkmair
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Doesborch]
Image date:
1507?
Image function:
illustration; verso leaf [4]
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
7.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
9.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Scene of native American warfare. Cultural artifacts include bows and arrows.
Source creator:
Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
Source Title:
[Mundus novus. Dutch] Van der nieuwer werelt
Source place of publication:
Gheprent Thantwerpen [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
Bi Ja[n] va[n] Doesborch
Source date:
[1507?]
notes:
This image is taken from the Dutch edition of Vespucci's popular account published soon after Columbus's reports. The book describes a society of female warriors or Amazons in present-day Brazil. Vespucci's work, written following his voyage to Brazil in 1501, caused a sensation and was reprinted dozens of times in the early sixteenth century. The image is taken from the only known copy of this edition, which is noteworthy for its woodcut illustrations.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1871.
Owner and copyright:
�John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
First contact of aboriginal peoples with Westerners
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