COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06-222
Record number:
06-222-45
JCB call number:
D760 W927d
Image title:
Capt. James's escape from the Fire.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[J. Newbery]
Image date:
1760
Image function:
plate; vol. 10, following p. 190
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
13.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
7.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Near a shore, a man jumps away from a burning tree while another man flees in the distance. Includes sword, gun or musket, ship, cross, and hut or dwelling.
Source Title:
The world displayed; or, A curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. ... Vol. X.
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:
Captain James wintered on Charlton Island in what is now James Bay at the southernmost part of Hudson Bay in present-day Nunavut, Canada. In order to save his ship, the Henrietta Maria, from ice damage, he sank it and refloated it when the ice broke up. In June of 1632, their ship having been refloated, James and a crew member tried to signal any native Americans who might be in the vicinity. The crew member started a fire prematurely, causing the captain to have to leap from the tree he had climbed which had caught fire. James had erected a cross to which were attached images of King Charles and Queen Henrietta Maria in order to claim the territory for Britain.Volume ten contains accounts of voyages to the Maldives, the Cape of Good Hope, the Cape Verde Islands, and the Arctic. This section relates to Thomas James's voyage of 1631 to 1632 from Bristol, England, to Hudson Bay in search of a northwest passage.
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:
North America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Nunavut
Subject headings:
James, Thomas, 1593?-1635?
Subject headings:
Northwest Passage
Capt. James's escape from the Fire.
