Accession number
PML 140007, no. 110
Creator
Picart, Bernard, 1673-1733, engraver.
Published
[Amsterdam] : [Pierre Humbert] 1716 (published 1717)
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Frontispiece to Amédée François Frézier's "Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux cotes du Chili, du Pérou, et du Brèsil" (Amsterdam : Pierre Humbert, 1717).
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark.
Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; image: 133 x 75 mm; sheet: 140 x 81 mm
Summary
View of the indigenous people of South America, with a woman grinding corn on the shore and a man seated on a double canoe or catamaran beside her; a lobster is emerging from the water beside a seal, and in the background people are visible dancing and playing games; in the distance is shown a smoking volcano and European ships approach the far shore.
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