MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
36399
Record number:
36399-6
JCB call number:
E760 D815p
Image title:
[Columbus has a vision]
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Desaint & Saillant, Durand]
Image date:
[1761]
Image function:
plate 9; following p. [146]
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
11.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Christopher Columbus lies on the ground and has a vision of a woman holding a globe and seated on clouds.
Source creator:
Du Boccage, Madame (Marie-Anne), 1710-1802
Source Title:
La Colombiade, ou La foi portée au Nouveau Monde, poëme ...
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Desaint & Saillant, rue S. Jean de Beauvais. Durand, rue du Foin, vis-à-vis les Mathurins.
Source date:
M. DCC. LXI. [1761]
notes:
After the death of the native American woman with whom Columbus was in love, he has a vision of a woman who tells him the future of Europe.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Columbus, Christopher
Subject headings:
Apparitions
Subject headings:
Visions

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