Casteel St. George d'Elmina
"Castle of St. George d'Elmina" (caption translation). From the Voltaic region, this view from the sea shows Elmina, which was built by the Portuguese in the 1480s. By 1637, the Dutch took it over until 1872. Bosman was an official of the Dutch West India Company and chief factor at Elmina. See Christopher DeCorse, An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400-1900 (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001). Refer also to Image D021.
Image Title
Casteel St. George d'Elmina
RegID
SI-OB-116
Date
1704
Title
Casteel St. George d'Elmina
Source
Willem Bosman, Nauwkeurige Beschryving van de Guinese Goud-, Tand- en Slave-Kust. . . (Utrecht, 1704), fig. 1, facing p. 44. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
Dutch
Item sets
European Forts & Trading Posts in Africa
Spatial Coverage
Africa--Voltaic--Elmina
Reproduced In
Willem Bosman, Nauwkeurige Beschryving van de Guinese Goud-, Tand- en Slave-Kust . . . (Utrecht, 1704), fig. 1, facing p. 44.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
9-May-17
Identifier
D020