Theodor de Bry, after John White; Algonquian subject
Coastal Virginia and Carolina
1590
Hand colored copper engraving
18 x 23 in framed
This hand colored engraving is Plate XVIII from Theodor de Bry's 1590 account of Virginia, after the watercolors John White made from life on the Carolina coast, showing an Algonquian ceremonial dance held in a ring. Figures move around an oval set with tall wooden posts, each carved at the top with a human face, some dancers holding gourd rattles and leafy branches while three women embrace at the center. At left a block of Latin letterpress carries the plate number XVIII and the heading Virginiensium saltandi ratio solennibus festis, the manner of dancing of the Virginians at their solemn feasts. The sheet is hand colored with deckled and chipped edges, a vertical center fold, and staining at the upper left, presented in a gilt frame with a wide mat.
Theodor de Bry was a Flemish engraver and publisher whose America series, begun in 1590, opened with Thomas Harriot's report on Virginia illustrated after John White. White was governor of the Roanoke colony and made his watercolors of Algonquian life on the Carolina coast in the 1580s, and de Bry engraved them for a European readership. The plates are among the earliest printed European images of Native people in what is now the eastern United States.
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Theodor de Bry, after John White; Algonquian subject
Coastal Virginia and Carolina
1590
Hand colored copper engraving
18 x 23 in framed
This hand colored engraving is Plate XVIII from Theodor de Bry's 1590 account of Virginia, after the watercolors John White made from life on the Carolina coast, showing an Algonquian ceremonial dance held in a ring. Figures move around an oval set with tall wooden posts, each carved at the top with a human face, some dancers holding gourd rattles and leafy branches while three women embrace at the center. At left a block of Latin letterpress carries the plate number XVIII and the heading Virginiensium saltandi ratio solennibus festis, the manner of dancing of the Virginians at their solemn feasts. The sheet is hand colored with deckled and chipped edges, a vertical center fold, and staining at the upper left, presented in a gilt frame with a wide mat.
Theodor de Bry was a Flemish engraver and publisher whose America series, begun in 1590, opened with Thomas Harriot's report on Virginia illustrated after John White. White was governor of the Roanoke colony and made his watercolors of Algonquian life on the Carolina coast in the 1580s, and de Bry engraved them for a European readership. The plates are among the earliest printed European images of Native people in what is now the eastern United States.
We ship free anywhere in the world, fully insured, packed by hand.
