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Visual Resources Teaching Collection
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Work Title (display):
Indiae Orientalis, Pars II: Effigiatio Aethiopum, qui funt in Moffamibica, Caffres no minatorum
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full view
Work Description:
Theodor de Bry, a 16th-century Walloon engraver from Liege, is best known for his depictions of the Americas. Living in London in the 1580s, he met the geographer Richard Hakluyt. But it was only after settling in Frankfurt, already in his 60s, that de Bry published his first books, Les Grands Voyages, or "The Discovery of America" as well as the similar Petits Voyages, or the "India Orientalis" series. In this work de Bry engraved ten images of China, two depict gruesome scenes of torture, two of death, and two of idol worship. Whipping and encaged people figure prominently in this scene, while executed figures attached to high poles serve as background. De Bry had never traveled to China, but descriptions of Chinese torture circulated widely in Europe. Note that the buildings and perspective in his illustrations are entirely European. European and American fascination with imagined forms of Chinese punishment stands as a pervasive, age-old backdrop to the Western longing for Chinese commodities and East-West commerce in general. (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University, http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/John_Carter_Brown_Library/china/index1.html)
Work Dates (display):
1599
Work Dates type:
creation
Image Date (display):
2010-02-05
Work Creator (display):
Johann Theodor de Bry (Franco-Flemish, 1561-1623)
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male
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Work Style Period:
16th century
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16th century
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Work Subject:
documentation (function)
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documentation (function)
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Work Subject:
customs (social)
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customs (social)
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Work Subject:
Indigenous peoples
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Indigenous peoples
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false
Work Subject:
exploration (geographic)
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exploration (geographic)
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false
Work Subject:
Africa (continent)
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Africa (continent)
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false
Work Subject:
Africans
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Africans
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Work Worktype:
engravings (prints)
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engravings (prints)
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prints (visual works)
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prints (visual works)
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prints
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prints
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Work Material and Technique (display):
ink
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
John Carter Brown Library
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Providence, Rhode Island
Image Source Reproduction refid:
042091
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Image Rights (display):
© Ken Iwamasa
Work Rights (display):
© John Carter Brown Library
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Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Collection
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