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Johannes Staden helps to defend the Indians who captured him against the Tuppin Tkins – Historic Reproduction

Johannes Staden helps to defend the Indians who captured him against the Tuppin Tkins — antique engraving
Johannes Staden helps to defend the Indians who captured him against the Tuppin Tkins. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive 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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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Johannes Staden helps to defend the Indians who captured him against the Tuppin Tkins. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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Here Staden, the German gunner held by the Tupinambá in coastal Brazil, is shown stepping in to shield the people who had captured him from their enemies, the Tuppin Tkins. Theodor de Bry's workshop in Frankfurt produced the plate for its 1593 edition of Staden's account, which had first appeared in Marburg in 1557 after he returned to Europe. The book's mix of firsthand detail and dramatic illustration shaped European views of Brazil and its peoples for generations, and this engraving shows how de Bry's engravers turned a travel narrative into vivid, often violent scenes.

Medium1 print : engraving.
Notes1593
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,269 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-122300

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