Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Cruelities of the pirates in Panama]
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Accession number:
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02838
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Record number:
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02838-2
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JCB call number:
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F681 Z49e
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Image title:
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[Cruelities of the pirates in Panama]
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Jan ten Hoorn]
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Image date:
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[1681]
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Image function:
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plate; following p. 206
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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16.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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19.4 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.9 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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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.
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Source Title:
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[Zeldzaame en gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen] Eduward Meltons, Engelsch edelmans, zeldzaame en gedenkwaardige zee- en land-reizen
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Source place of publication:
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't Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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By Jan ten Hoorn, boek-verkooper over 't Oude Heeren-Logement
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Source date:
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1681
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notes:
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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.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1861.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Pirates
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Subject headings:
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Bucanneers
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Subject headings:
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Torture
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