MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
34362
Record number:
34362-3
JCB call number:
F770 H335b / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[top] De Schans St. Andries, te zien van het Krabben Eyland Oostzynde. [bottom] Redout Samson of Brandwagt
Creator 1:
Jacob van der Schley
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1763-1770
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Garritt Tielenburg ]
Image date:
[1770]
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 282
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
18.6 cm. [both images]
Image dimension width:
13.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
[top] View of Fort Sint Andries, present-day New Amsterdam, on the Berbice River in present-day Guyana. [bottom] Samson redoubt or signal station, probably on the Berbice River. Includes fortifications, Dutch flags, ship, cannons, and soldier with gun or musket.
Source creator:
Hartsinck, Jan Jakob, 1716-1779
Source Title:
Beschryving van Guiana, of de wildekust, in Zuid-America ... Eerste deel
Source place of publication:
Te Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Garritt Tielenburg
Source date:
MDCCLXX [1770]
notes:
Located on the Berbice River, New Amsterdam, first built in 1740 by the Dutch and named Fort Sint Andries, was made the seat of the Dutch colonial government in 1790, but taken over by the British in 1803. The site of the signal station is presently known as Brandwagt-Sari, Guyana.Hartsinck, a director of the Dutch West India Company (VOC), had access to many VOC documents now lost, as well as to the papers of his father (who had been director of the Surinam Society for 25 years). He was also an official of the Admiralty in Amsterdam and a member of the Zeeland Academy of Sciences.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Fortification--Guyana
Subject headings:
Berbice River (Guyana)--Description and travel

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[top] De Schans St. Andries, te zien van het Krabben Eyland Oostzynde. [bottom] Redout Samson of Brandwagt