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Explore the historical depictions of America through European print media dating back to the 15th century, featuring works by notable figures like Christopher Columbus, Jean de Léry, and Jacques de Le Moyne. Discover how these early images shaped perceptions of the New World.
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Christopher Columbus, De insulis nuper in mari Indico repertis. Bound with Carlo Verardi, In laudem...Ferdinandi Hispaniarum regis...Basel: Johann Bergmann de Olpe, 1494.
Simon Grynaeus and Johann Huttich,Novis orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum. Basle: Johann Hervagius, 1532 [detail from map].
Jean de Léry,Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique... Geneva: For the heirs of Eustache Vignon, 1594.
Jan van der Straet and Theodor Galle (engraving), America. Ca. 1580.
The Tears of the Indians: Being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people; committed by the Spaniards... London: J.C. for Nath. Brooke, 1656.
Thomas Hariot, Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiae. Frankfurt: Theodor de Bry, 1590.
Jacques de Le Moyne/Theodor de Bry (engraving), Narrative of Le Moyne: an artist who accompanied the French expedition to Florida under Laudonniere, 1564.
Christian Daniel Claus,A Primer, for the Use of the Mohawk Children... London: C. Buckton, 1786.