Thursday, August 16, 2018

Theodor de Bry 1588 Embellished Engravings of Copied Images of Native Americans - Around a Fire

1588 Theodor de Bry 1528-1598 Native Americans Around a Fire  A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was an engraver & publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. In 1588 Theodor de Bry & his sons published a new, illustrated edition of Thomas Harriot's 1588 A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia about the first English settlements in North America (in North Carolina). His illustrations were loosely based on the 1585 eye-witness watercolor paintings of English colonist & artist John White.