MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
10770
Record number:
10770-1
JCB call number:
F723 Z89a
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
[Leipzig]
Image publisher:
[Peter Conrad Monath]
Image date:
1723
Image function:
added engraved title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
17 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Allegorical figures of a man representing time and a woman representing the navigational arts are placed before scenes of Greenland. Men kill a polar bear that is trying to eat a man. Also includes erupting volcanoes and scene of whaling with ships, boats, and sea lions or seals. Includes angels or putti carrying a narwhal tusk, harpoons, spear, and rope, an angel with a trumpet and laurel wreath, a sea god or triton with fish tail and horn, and navigational instruments such as dividers, backstaff, globe and chart.
Source creator:
Zorgdrager, C. G. (Cornelis Gijsbertz), b.ca. 1650
Source Title:
[Bloeyende opkomst der aloude en hedendaagsche Groenlandsche visschery. German] C.G. Zorgdragers alte und neue grönländische Fischerei und Wallfischfang, ...
Source place of publication:
Leipzig
Source publisher:
bei Peter Conrad Monath
Source date:
1723
notes:
Cf. the 1720 Amsterdam edition, #07230-1.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1915.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Arctic
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Flora and fauna
Subject headings:
Greenland--Description and travel
Subject headings:
Emblems
Subject headings:
Whaling

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