Praefecturae Paranambucae pars Borealis

"Office of Pernambuco Northern Region" (caption translation). This engraving of a map of Brazil includes an inset image showing a sugar plantation and enslaved people engaged in various tasks. In the center, a group is transporting a planter's wife in a hammock. Also shown were various plantation buildings, including the manor house or great house and a vertical roller sugar mill powered by water. Frans Post and Georg Marcgraf made this engraving. Frans Janszoon Post (1612–1680) was a Dutch painter. In 1636, he traveled to Dutch Brazil where he produced a large number of sketches and etchings, but only completed six paintings. In his lifetime, he made 140 paintings. The paintings he produced in Brazil differ from those he painted after he left Brazil. Georg Marcgraf (1610–c.1644) was a German cartographer and astronomer who also traveled to Dutch Brazil. See image NW0062.

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Image Title

Praefecturae Paranambucae pars Borealis

RegID

SI-OB-977

Date

1640

Title

Praefecturae Paranambucae pars Borealis

Source

Joan Blaeu, Atlas maior, sive, Cosmographia Blaviana: Qua solum, salum, cœlum, accuratissime describuntur, vol. 11 (Amstelædami: Labore & sumptibus Ioannis Blaeu, 1662), between p. 243 and 245.

Language

Dutch

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

South America--Brazil--Pernambuco

Researchers

Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Blanche Ebeling-Koning; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Last Updated

2007; 4-Sep-19

Identifier

blaeu04a