COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06192
Record number:
06192-12
JCB call number:
J590 B915v GV-E.l [F] / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Their manner of careynge ther Childern and a tyere of the cheiffe Ladyes of the towne of Dasemonquepeuc.
Creator 1:
John White
Creator 1 dates:
fl. 1585-1593
Creator 2:
Theodor de Bry
Creator 2 dates:
1528-1598
Creator 2 role:
[engraver]
Place image published:
[Frankfurt]
Image publisher:
[J. Wechel, for T. de Bry]
Image date:
[1590]
Image function:
illustration; plate X
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.9 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
21 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
32.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
22.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
A native American woman carrying a child on her back is shown from back and front. Behind her, native Americans in canoes fish.
Source creator:
Hariot, Thomas, 1560-1621
Source Title:
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia. ...
Source place of publication:
Francoforti [Frankfurt]
Source publisher:
Ad Moenum Typis Ioannis Wecheli, Sumptibus Vero Theodori De Bry
Source date:
Anno MDXC. ... [1590]
notes:
The engraving is after a watercolor by John White. Text describes the way native Americans of Virginia carried their children. Theodor De Bry's America. Part I. English.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Hulton, P. and Quinn, D.B. The American Drawings of John White 1577-1590, vol. II, pl. 127a, no. 37B, cf. pl. 34.
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1967.
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 Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Fishing
Subject headings:
Indians of North America
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