Departure from Lisbon for Brazil, the East Indies and America, engraving from c.1592 by Theodor de Bry (Flemish, 1528-1598), illustration in America Tertia Pars.
Location: Service Historique de la Marine, Vincennes.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
This detail of Macau in the late 1500s by Theodore de...
This detail of Macau in the late 1500s by Theodore de Bry reveals Westerners being carried in palanquins or walking through town accompanied by servants with umbrellas. The inner harbor is busy with Western ships.
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Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Engraving by Theodore de Bry after John White’s...
Engraving by Theodore de Bry after John White’s watercolour, from Thomas Hariot’s
A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (1590)
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Coastline of Brazil, according to the Dieppe school of...
Coastline of Brazil, according to the Dieppe school of mapmakers
16th century
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Frans Post “Brazilian Landscape With Anteater”...
Frans Post
“Brazilian Landscape With Anteater” (1649)
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Monday, August 10, 2015
Brazilian Landscape, by Frans Jansz. Post, 1652 (Rijksmuseum). A...
Brazilian Landscape, by Frans Jansz. Post, 1652 (Rijksmuseum). A sugar plantation can be seen in the distance.
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Illustrated title page for ‘Historia Naturalis Brasiliae,’ a...
Illustrated title page for ‘Historia Naturalis Brasiliae,’ a 17th century scientific work on the flora, fauna, and people of Brazil.
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