COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04362
Record number:
04362-12
JCB call number:
JA675 T167s / 1-SIZE
Image title:
P. Petrus Martinez Hispan. S.I. odio Fidei Christianae occisus à Barbaris Americanis in Insula Florida Ao. 1566.z 8 Septembris
Creator 1:
Karel Skréta
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1610-1674
Creator 1 role:
del[ineavit].
Creator 2:
Melchoir Küsel
Creator 2 dates:
1626-1683
Creator 2 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Prague]
Image publisher:
[Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae]
Image date:
[1675]
Image function:
illustration; p. 444
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
10.7 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
29.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Native American wearing feathered garments and holding a war club stands over the body of a martyr, monk, or priest. In the background are two dwellings.
Source creator:
Tanner, Mathias, 1630-1692
Source Title:
Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans in Europea, Africa, Asia, et America
Source place of publication:
Pragae [Prague]
Source publisher:
Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem
Source date:
M. DC. LXXV. [1675]
notes:
Father Pedro Martinez was among a small contingent of Jesuits sent to the mission called Nombre de Dios in Saint Augustine, Florida. Fearful Indians clubbed him to death on Fort George Island in 1566.The author, Mathias Tanner from Pilsen, Bohemia, entered the Society of Jesus in 1646, spent most of his life in Prague, and became rector of the Colegio and Imperial University.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1873.
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 Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Christian martyrs--Florida
Subject headings:
Jesuits--Florida
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