COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0339
Record number:
0339-18
JCB call number:
E613 C453v [R]
Image title:
R. St. Iehan
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Jean Berjon]
Image date:
[1613]
Image function:
plate; p. 30
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
15.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
22 cm.
Page dimension width:
17 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Chart of a harbor showing a point of land with a cross. Cartographic elements include soundings, shoals, compass rose, and ship. Also includes a waterfall or rapids, dwelling, native Americans and some topographical details. Items in image are lettered for identification in key below.
Source creator:
Champlain, Samuel de, 1567-1635
Source Title:
Les voyages du sieur de Champlain Xaintongeois, capitaine ordinaire pour le roy, en la marine ... ou, Iournal tres-fidele des obseruations faites és descouuertures de la Nouuelle France ... Cerchans vn chemin par le Nord, pour aller à la Chine
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
chez Iean Berjon, rue S. Iean de Beauuais, au Cheval volant, & en sa boutique au Palais, à la gallerie des prisonniers.
Source date:
M.DC.XIII [1613]
notes:
Champlain describes the country around Port des mines or present-day Basin of Mines or Minas Basin, Nova Scotia, Canada. The river at the head of the bay is Shubenacadie River, but the location of the cross, which proves, according to the author, that Christians once lived there, is unknown.Champlain drew the original from which the engraving was made.
Time Period:
1601-1650
References:
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, edited by Charles Pomeroy Otis, vol. 2, chapter 16.
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
New France--Discovery and exploration
Subject headings:
North America--Maps
R. St. Iehan
