COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
29877
Record number:
29877-5
JCB call number:
F741 E96h1
Image title:
Puerto del Principe, Taken, & Sackt.
Creator 1:
Fournier
Creator 1 role:
inv et Del.
Creator 2:
Bonneau
Creator 2 role:
Sculp
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[D. Midwinter ... ; T. Woodward ... ; C. Bathurst ... ; and A. Ward]
Image date:
[1741]
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 132
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Men attack the town or settlement of Puerto Principe using guns or muskets. Also includes dwellings and church.
Source creator:
Exquemelin, A. O. (Alexandre Olivier)
Source Title:
[Americaanse zeerovers. English] The history of the bucaniers of America ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
printed for D. Midwinter ... ; T. Woodward ... ; C. Bathurst ... ; and A. Ward ...
Source date:
MDCCXLI [1741]
notes:
Henry Morgan was a notorious pirate who captured numerous Spanish ships, as well as the towns of Puerto Principe (present-day Camaguey, Cuba), Portobelo (in Panama) and Maracaibo (in Venezuela). In 1674, after being granted a pardon by Charles II of England, Morgan was knighted and appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Jamaica. A translation of Alexander Olivier Exquemelin's 'De Americaanse zeerovers', first published in 1678.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1946.
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--Caribbean area
Subject headings:
Buccaneers
Puerto del Principe, Taken, & Sackt.
