COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06513
Record number:
06513-3
JCB call number:
D726 R644f
Image title:
A Man and Woman of the Island of St. John in their best Habits.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[A. Bettesworth & J. Osborn]
Image date:
[1726]
Image function:
plate; following p. 422
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.5 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
10.8 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
18.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
11.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Black [or native American] man and woman wearing robes or cloaks.
Source creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Source Title:
The four years voyages of Capt. George Roberts ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for A. Bettesworth, at the Red Lyon, in Pater-Noster-Row, and J. Osborn, at the ship, at St. Saviour's Dock-Head, near Horsely-Down.
Source date:
1726
notes:
Nothing is known of Captain George Roberts beyond what he wrote; George Roberts may be a pseudonym of Daniel Defoe and this narrative may be fictional.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of the West Indies
A Man and Woman of the Island of St. John in their best Habits.
