COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0918
Record number:
0918-005
JCB call number:
J Hulsius pt. 5 1599 1
Image title:
Manoa o del Dorado
Place image published:
[Nuremberg]
Image publisher:
Imprensis Levini Hulsii
Image date:
1599
Image function:
plate, following p. 7
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
6.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
11 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
View of the city of Manoa or El Dorado on the shores of Lake Parime. Includes a walled city with ships and boats or canoes. Also includes native Americans [?] carrying casks down to boats and carrying canoes to the water.
Source creator:
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
Source Title:
Kurtze wunderbare Beschreibung. Dess Goldreichen Königreichs Guianae im America, oder newen Welt, vnter der Linea Aequinoctiali gelegen: so newlich Anno 1594. 1595. vnnd 1596 [Part 5]
Source place of publication:
Noribergae [Nuremberg]
Source publisher:
Impensis Levini Hulsii
Source date:
1599
notes:
Constitutes the fifth part of Sammlung von sechs und zwanzig Schiffahrten in verschiedene fremde Länder durch Levinus Hulsius und einige Andere, aus dem Holländischen ins Deutsche übersetzt und mit allerhand Anmerrkungen versehen, compiled by Levinus Hulsius, and printed in 26 parts in Nuremberg, Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1598 to 1663. Translation and abridgement of: The discouerie of the large, rich, and bevvtiful empyre of Guiana ..., London, 1596. This work has been identified as the first edition of part five by Church.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Subject matter:
native Americans, Indians
References:
Church, E.D. Discovery, 281, Bartlett, J.R. Bibliographical notices, 478-479
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846 or 1847.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Guiana--Description and travel
Manoa o del Dorado
