Their manner of fishing in Virginia – Antique Print
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(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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Step back in time with Their manner of fishing in Virginia, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Their manner of fishing in Virginia
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This engraving, one of the plates in Thomas Hariot's 1590 report on the English colony at Roanoke, shows how the Native peoples of the Virginia coast fished, with canoes at work on the water. It was made from a watercolor by John White, who had sailed with the colony sent out by Sir Richard Grenville in 1585, and Theodor de Bry turned the drawing into an engraving for the Frankfurt edition. Because the English drew from direct observation, the plate is valued as an early European record of Native technology on the Atlantic coast.
| Created / published | [1590] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1590.Engravings 1590. |
| Notes | Illus. in: A brief and true report of the new found land of Virginia: of the commodities and of the nature and manners of the naturall inhabitants : Discouered by the English colony there seated by Sir Richard Greinuile ... in ... 1585 ... / This fore booke is made in English by Thomas Hariot. Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis I. Wecheli, svmtibvs vero T. de Bry, 1590. From a watercolor drawing by John White. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United States / edited by Patrick Frazier and the Publishing Office. Washington : Library of Congress, 1996, p. 56. |
| Subjects | Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--Virginia--1580-1590. Fishing--Virginia--1580-1590. Canoes--Virginia--1580-1590. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,107 × 4,078 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218662 |
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