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[Religious ritual on Hispaniola].
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- Maker :
- GOTTFRIED, J.L. / DE BRY.
- Place :
- Frankfurt, M.Merian
- Date :
- 1633
- Color :
- Uncolored
- Height mm.:
- 162
- Width mm.:
- 192
- Condition :
- Copper plate engraving on text sheet. Paper browned as usual. Right margin slightly cropped. White tape over an old tear to bottom margin.
Size of sheet : 345 x 212 mm. German text on verso. German text on verso. - Bibliography :
- www.history-engraved.org/ Hispaniola 540
- Seller's ref. :
- 39921
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Scarce print with a German text sheet.On certain feast-days the Indian cacique, while beating a drum, led a procession of his people to the worship of their idol, which was a strange hybrid-like creature with several heads.The men were painted black, red and yellow and came first, dressed in parrot feathers and necklaces of seashells. The women, decorated with jewellery, followed with their naked daughters. When all were assembled, the cacique inserted a stake into his throat, which made him vomit, so as to rid himself of secrets.
While the men sat cross-legged, chanting, the women brought baskets of bread and roses in adoration of their idol From de Bry's "Great American Voyages".
Johann Theodor de Bry (1561-1623) was born in Liège in 1561, the eldest son of the engraver and publisher Theodor de Bry. It was from his father that Johann learned his craft, producing both engravings and etchings.
In 1588, the Lutheran De Bry family settled in Frankfurt am Main, a safe haven for Lutherans at this time of religious discord. Together with his father and brother (Johann Israël de Bry), Johann published two popular emblem books.
He also produced engravings from celebrated contemporary painters. De Bry died in Frankfurt in 1623.
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Brabantiae Descriptio.
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Date : 1598
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