Johannes Staden is being exhibited as a prisoner by the Indian women – Vintage Wall Art
(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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Johannes Staden is being exhibited as a prisoner by the Indian women comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Johannes Staden is being exhibited as a prisoner by the Indian women
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Here the captive is the German gunner Johannes Staden, shown being paraded before Tupinambá women in Brazil, where he was held after being taken by the Tupinambá in the mid-1550s. Staden published his account of those months in 1557, and this copper engraving comes from Theodor de Bry's Frankfurt volumes on America, printed in the early 1590s. De Bry's plates did much to shape European ideas of Native peoples, turning one captive's experience into a spectacle for readers. The women's central place in the scene is worth noticing, since it reflects the account's focus on Staden's humiliation as much as on the people who held him.
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | 1593 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,255 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-122298 |
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