COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01846
Record number:
01846-001
JCB call number:
B626 L334m
Image title:
[Title page]
Creator 1:
Alardo de Popma
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1617-1641
Creator 1 role:
fecit
Place image published:
En Madrid
Image publisher:
En la Imprenta Real
Image date:
1626
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.2cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
An allegorical image of America as a kneeling young woman with a bow and an axe looking at an eagle. Decorative elements include three coats of arms (at top, the royal coat of arms of Leon and Castile), the chain of the Order of the Golden Fleece, the old and new hemispheres.
Source creator:
Larrinaga Salazar, Juan de, b. 1593
Source Title:
Memorial discursivo sobre el oficio de protector general de los Indios del Piru
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
En la Imprenta Real
Source date:
MDCXXVI [1626]
Time Period:
1601-1650
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures), Heraldry
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1861.
Owner and copyright:
John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems--America
[Title page]
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