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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04206
Record number:
04206-26
JCB call number:
J631 G685n / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[top] [Acapulco bay and ships] [bottom] [Guguan Island and ships]
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
[Matthäus Merian]
Image date:
[1631]
Image function:
illustration; [part 2], p. 41
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
37.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
[top] View of the coast of Mexico near the bay of Acapulco. Includes European ships. [bottom] Ships at Guguan in the Marianna Islands. Includes proas or small boats in water.
Source creator:
Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent.
Source Title:
Newe Welt und Americanische Historien ...
Source place of publication:
zu Franctfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
Durch Matthaeum Merian, Buchändlern un Kunststechern
Source date:
MDCXXXI. [1631]
notes:
After leaving Puna, the Dutch fleet sailed to Acapulco, Mexico, to try to intercept the Spanish ship bound for Manilla. The Dutch reached Acapulco on September 28, 1624. This image shows a detachment of the Dutch fleet lined up twenty leagues west of Acapulco in order to intercept the Manilla-bound ships. Johan Maurits, prince of Nassau-Siegen, ordered the voyage, commanded by Admiral Jacob L'Hermite (or Jacques L'Hermite), as an expedition against Spain. The fleet circumnavigated the globe. Cf. 08299-7 in Journael vande Nassausche vloot ..., Amsterdam, 1626. 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.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1869.
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 Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Acapulco Bay (Mexico)

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