Nova Reperta, The Discovery of America
PLATE 1. The Discovery of America. First plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of a sailor (Vespucci) coming to shore and discovering America. He encounters a native woman seated in a hammock. In the background different figures are seated on the ground; a woman roasts a human leg on a wood-burning fire. In the middle ground on the right a horse and a bear approach one another. In the foreground on the right an anteater searches for food. On the left a ship rocks in the ocean and another is pushed up against the shore
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1600 1600s Collaert Inventions Nova Reperta Seventeeth
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