COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
03205
Record number:
03205-12
JCB call number:
J767 C891h
Image title:
Bediening van den Heiligen Doop.
Creator 1:
Jan Swertner
Creator 1 dates:
1746-1813
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Haarlem & Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[C.H. Bohn & H. de Wit]
Image date:
1767
Image function:
fold-out plate 14; vol. 3, following p. 332
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
15.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
26 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Moravian missionary baptizes Inuit as other missionaries and a large group of Inuit look on.
Source creator:
Cranz, David, 1723-1777
Source Title:
[Historie von Grönland. Dutch] Historie van Groenland behelzende eene nauwkeurige beschrijvinge van 's lands ligging, gesteldheid, en natuurlijke zeldzaamheden ... bij de straate Davis ... [III. deel]
Source place of publication:
Te Haarlem
Source publisher:
bij C.H. Bohn, [te] Amsterdam bij H. de Wit, boekverkoopers.
Source date:
1767
notes:
David Cranz, a German historian and missionary, spent 14 months in Greenland in 1761-62.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1866.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Baptism
Subject headings:
Inuit--Greenland
Subject headings:
Moravian Church--Missions