COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08378
Record number:
08378-169
JCB call number:
F609 L275h oblong
Image title:
Cerro de Potosi
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[By Cornelis Claesz, op't water, in't schrijf-boeck]
Image date:
1609
Image function:
plate, p. 743
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
7.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
11.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
View of the mountain of Potosí with a view of the town at the base of the mountain. Includes church and miners walking up the mountain with their pickaxes. Includes dwellings and a river. In the distance is the Villa de Plata.
Source creator:
Langenes, Barent
Source Title:
Hand-boeck; of cort begrijp der caerten ende beschoyvinghen van alle landen des werelds. Van nieuvvs oversien ende vermeerdert.
Source place of publication:
'tAmstelredam
Source publisher:
By Cornelis Claesz, op't water, in't schrijf-boeck
Source date:
1609
notes:
The mines at Potosí were discovered by Diego Hualca in 1544. The silver mines there were among the richest in the world.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874?
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Mines and mineral resources--Peru
Cerro de Potosi
