Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Alligators eat a man]
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Accession number:
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04206
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Record number:
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04206-16
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JCB call number:
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J631 G685n / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Alligators eat a man]
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Place image published:
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[Frankfurt am Main]
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Image publisher:
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[Matthäus Merian]
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Image date:
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[1631]
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Image function:
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illustration; [part 1], p. 382
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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15.2 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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17.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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37.1 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22.8 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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European soldiers standing in boats watch as a swimmer is eaten by a sea monster or serpent. Also includes spears and exotic animals such as deer or stags, a llama, monkey, birds, rheas [?], and turkeys.
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Source creator:
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Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent.
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Source Title:
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Newe Welt und Americanische Historien ...
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Source place of publication:
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zu Franctfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
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Source publisher:
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Durch Matthaeum Merian, Buchändlern un Kunststechern
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Source date:
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MDCXXXI. [1631]
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notes:
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Text discusses Sir Walter Raleigh and his men traveling through beautiful country on the Orinoco River with plentiful game and describes lagartos or crocodiles [alligators]. A young black man who was in Raleigh's company was eaten by alligators when he jumped into the river to swim. Theodor de Bry and his sons issued a series of books on voyages to America in fifteen parts between 1590 and 1634. In 1631, Gottfried (a printer who had worked on the de Bry volumes) issued this one-volume condensation of all the voyages. He reused many of the plates from the original volumes, but supplemented them with new ones. Theodor de Bry. America. Part 13.
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Time Period:
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1601-1650
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1869.
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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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Guianas
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Flora and fauna
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Subject headings:
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Orinoco River (Venezuela and Colombia)--Description and travel
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