MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
5472
Record number:
5472-1
JCB call number:
B648 C313o / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Title page]
Creator 1:
Joan van Noort
Creator 1 dates:
ca.1620-ca. 1675
Creator 1 role:
F[ecit]
Place image published:
Madriti [Madrid]
Image publisher:
Per Iulianum de Paredes
Image date:
1648
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
27.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
28.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Engraved title page showing a classical aedicula populated by allegorical figures and portraits. Two figures (one representing future virtue, the other permanent strength) support a portrait of the conde de Castrillo, García de Haro y Avellaneda beneath which is his coat of arms. Below them are a female figure in armor holding a spear and a cornucopia representing Spain and a female native American holding ears of corn and a bow and wearing a quiver and a feathered headdress. Below them is another cartouche holding a portrait of the author with a coat of arms below it. Includes Latin mottoes, sword, and mirror with snakes.
Source creator:
Carrasco del Saz, Francisco, fl. 1620.
Source Title:
Doctoris Francisci Carasco del Saz regij Panamensis senatoris ... opera ...
Source place of publication:
Madriti [Madrid]
Source publisher:
Per Iulianum de Paredes
Source date:
M.DC.XLVIII [1648]
notes:
Francisco Carrasco del Saz was a lawyer in Lima and rector of the University of San Marcos in 1613. He later went to Panama as a judge of the audiencia. García de Haro y Avellaneda lived from 1588 to 1670 and held important political offices in Spain. This engraved title page serves for a collection of works issued together.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1909.
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:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Portraits

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