AFTER JAN VAN DER STRAET, CALLED STRADANUS, THEODOOR GALLE. New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1

AFTER JAN VAN DER STRAET, CALLED STRADANUS (1523-1605) • THEODOOR GALLE (1571-1633)

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Discovery of America, plate 1. Artist: After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus (Netherlandish, Bruges 1523-1605 Florence); Theodoor Galle (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1571-1633 Antwerp). Dimensions: sheet: 10 5/8 x 7 7/8 in. (27 x 20 cm). Publisher: Philips Galle (Netherlandish, Haarlem 1537-1612 Antwerp). Date: ca. 1600. 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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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Philips Galle (Netherlandish, Haarlem 1537-1612 Antwerp)

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