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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
67-218
Record number:
67-218-1
JCB call number:
D652 H617c / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Printed for Henry Seile ...
Image date:
1652
Image function:
added engraved title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
28.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
18.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
34.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Title page showing allegorical male and female figures representing the four continents, Europe, Asia, Africa, and America. Also includes a globe, armillary sphere, spear, shield, bow, armor, elephant, lion, horse, orb, and trident. Also includes mythological figures [goddesses of water and earth], a dove flying over the ocean and the Hebrew letters for God [representing the creation of the world].
Source creator:
Heylyn, Peter, 1600-1662
Source Title:
[Cosmography in four books] Cosmographie in four bookes ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Henry Seile, and are to be sold at his shop over against Saint Dunstans Church in Fleetstreet
Source date:
MDCLII. [1652]
notes:
In this book, Heylyn attempts to describe in meticulous detail every aspect of the known world in 1652. This account may be the first description in print of Australia and California.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Emblems

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