COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
03542
Record number:
03542-001
JCB call number:
F655 V982k [R]
Image title:
David Pieterz. de Vries, artellery-meester van de staten van West-Vrieslant en 't Noorder quartier aeta. 60 anno M.D.C.L III.
Creator 1:
Cornelis Visscher
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1629-1658
Creator 1 role:
Delineavit et sculp.
Place image published:
[Hoorn]
Image publisher:
[Symon Cornelisz. Brekegeest]
Image date:
1653
Image function:
plate; p. [8], first count
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
14.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
15 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Portrait of David Pieterz. de Vries, master of artillery in the service of the Netherlands. Decorative elements include a laurel wreath, coat of arms [of the de Vries family?], armillary sphere, cannons, and armor.
Source creator:
Vries, David Pietersz. de, fl. 1593 - 1655
Source Title:
Karte historiael, ende journaels aenteyckeninge van verscheyden voyagiens in de view dellen des wereldts-ronde
Source place of publication:
t'Hoorn
Source publisher:
Voor David Pietersz. de Vries, artillerij-Meester van 't Noorder-quartier. Tot Alckmaer, by Symon Cornelisz. Brekegeest
Source date:
1655
notes:
De Vries was the only Dutch navigator, besides Henry Hudson, to publish a narrative of his voyages to New Netherland.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Subject matter:
navigational instruments
References exhibitions:
Klooster, W. Dutch in the Americas, Fig. 5.4
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866.
Owner and copyright:
�John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Brazil
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Vries, David Pietersz. de, fl. 1593 - 1655
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