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Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et fecit. – Historic Reproduction

Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et fecit. — historic print
Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et fecit.. Historic print from the Native Americans collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: Unus Americanus ex Virginia. Aetat 23 / W. Hollar ad vivum delin. et fecit., preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Unlike the group scenes elsewhere on this board, Hollar's plate isolates a single man, identified in the inscription as an American from Virginia and given an age of 23. The lettering states that Hollar drew the figure from life and etched it himself. Bohemian-born Wenceslaus Hollar worked in England and the Low Countries and produced several studies of this kind, and this one is dated Antwerp, 1645. The jewelry noted in the record makes it a useful, if European-filtered, glimpse of the personal adornment worn by Algonquian people of the Virginia region in the early seventeenth century.

Medium1 print : etching ; 10.2 x 7.6 cm. (sheet)
Notes[Antwerp : 1645]
SubjectsIndians of North America--Virginia--1640-1650. Algonquian Indians--1640-1650. Jewelry--1640-1650.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,103 × 5,085 px · prints to 14 × 17 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-218468

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