Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Afbeeldinghe van t'fort op Rio Grande ende belegeringhe.

Accession number: 
03502
Record number: 
03502-7
JCB call number: 
F644 L742h / 2-SIZE (copy 1)
Image title: 
Afbeeldinghe van t'fort op Rio Grande ende belegeringhe.
Place image published: 
[Leiden]
Image publisher: 
[Bonaventuer & Abraham Elsevier]
Image date: 
[1644]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 364
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
25.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
33.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
31.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
38 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Dutch
Description: 
Plan of the Fort of the Three Kings or Ceulen. Includes fortifications, location of batteries, barracks, Portuguese village, and indications of sea banks or shoals. Also includes scale and topographical details.
Source creator: 
Laet, Joannes de, 1593-1649
Source Title: 
Historie ofte Iaerlijck verhael van de verrichtinghen der Geoctroyeerde West-Indische Compagnie, zedert haer begin, tot het eynde van 't jaer sesthien-hondert ses-en-dertich ...
Source place of publication: 
Tot Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher: 
by Bonaventuer ende Abraham Elsevier
Source date: 
1644
notes: 
Text describes the prefecture of Rio Grande (do Norte) and the fort built there on the Potengi. In 1597, the Portuguese built a fortress on the banks of the Potengi River. Begun by Alburquerque Maranhão in 1598, the fort was named Forte dos Santos Reis (or Fort of the Three Wise Men). The Dutch captured and held the fort (which they named Van Ceulen [Keulen] Fort) from 1633 to 1654.
Time Period: 
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Brazil
Subject Area: 
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings: 
Brazil--History--Dutch conquest, 1624-1654
Subject headings: 
Fortification--Brazil