MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02838
Record number:
02838-2
JCB call number:
F681 Z49e
Image title:
[Cruelities of the pirates in Panama]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jan ten Hoorn]
Image date:
[1681]
Image function:
plate; following p. 206
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
16.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.1 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Men torture and kill in a settlement by the sea. Includes man having molten liquid poured down his throat, another bound before a fire, another man on a rack being burned, another being quartered, another hanging from a pole. Also includes ships, battalions of soldiers marching toward the men, church, and dwellings.
Source Title:
[Zeldzaame en gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen] Eduward Meltons, Engelsch edelmans, zeldzaame en gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen
Source place of publication:
't Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Jan ten Hoorn, boek-verkooper over 't Oude Heeren-Logement
Source date:
1681
notes:
Text discusses the cruelities of the pirates in Panama. This account of the West Indies is in part taken from Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin's De Americaensche Zee-Roovers, Amsterdam, 1678. A compilation of accounts from various sources, attributed by Tiele to Godofridus van Broekhuizen; Melton is considered a pseudonym.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1861.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Pirates
Subject headings:
Bucanneers
Subject headings:
Torture

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