Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Dutch Seize St. Salvador.

Accession number: 
06-222
Record number: 
06-222-17
JCB call number: 
D760 W927d
Image title: 
The Dutch Seize St. Salvador.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[J. Newbery]
Image date: 
1760
Image function: 
plate; vol. 3, following p. 142
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
9.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
5.9 cm.
Page dimension height: 
13.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
7.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
In a city, an archbishop addresses a number of clergy. In the background, soldiers enter the city. Includes flag.
Source Title: 
The world displayed; or, A curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. ... vol. III.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Source date: 
1760
notes: 
In 1624 the newly founded Dutch West India Company had its first success when a fleet commanded by Jacob Willekens defeated the Portuguese at San Salvador in Bahía [São Salvador de Bahia de Todos os Santo]. Nearly all of the inhabitants fled the city, leaving it to be defended by its archbishop, Michael Texeira and some other clerics. The Dutch possession was brief; the Spanish armada forced them to leave the city in April of 1625.Volume three contains an account of the conquest of Peru and the settlement of Brazil by the Portuguese.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Former collection William Holbech; acquired as a gift from the estate of Frederick Lippitt.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Brazil
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Clergy--Brazil
Subject headings: 
Brazil--History--Dutch conquest, 1624-1654