COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
03937
Record number:
03937-002
JCB call number:
J670 F819n /2-SIZE
Image title:
[top] [A knight slaying a dragon] [bottom left] [Virginia conjurer or shaman] [bottom right] [Florida conjurer or shaman]
Creator 1:
Cornelius Nicolaus Schurtz [Schurk]
Creator 1 dates:
active 1651-1700
Creator 1 role:
sc.
Place image published:
Nuremberg
Image publisher:
in Verlegung Johann Andreae Endters, und Wolfgang dess jüngern seel. Erben
Image date:
1670
Image function:
plate 1, following p. 2
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
27 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
33 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
[top] A knight in full armor attacks a dragon outside a cave. [bottom left] Native American shaman of Virginia with a bird on his head and skin holding liquid. [bottom right] Native American shaman of Florida who kneels on a shield with symbols around it.
Source creator:
Francisci, Erasmus, 1627-1694
Source Title:
Neu-polirter Geschicht-Kunst-und Sitten-Spiegel ausländischer Völcker, fürnemlich der Sineser, Japaner, Jndostaner, Javaner, Malabaren, Peguaner, Siammer, Peruaner, Mexicaner, Brasilianer ... und Theils anderer Nationen mehr : welcher, in sechs Büchern, sechserly Gestalten weiset
Source place of publication:
Nuremberg
Source publisher:
in Verlegung Johann Andreae Endters, und Wolfgang dess jüngern seel. Erben., Anno M.DC.LXX.
Source date:
M.DC.LXX. [1670]
notes:
[top] Text describes the dragon on Rhodes slain by Dieudonné de Gozon, Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes from 1346 t 1353. [bottom left] The engraving is after a watercolor by John White and appears as plate 11 in Theodor de Bry's America. Part I. [bottom right] The engraving also appears as plate 12 in part 2 of Theodor de Bry's America. Part 2.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1868.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
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