Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Bediening van den Heiligen Doop.

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