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Wolfgang Richter
DimensionsSheet: 11 7/8 × 8 1/4 in. (30.2 × 21 cm)
Plate: 5 11/16 × 6 3/4 in. (14.4 × 17.1 cm)
Accession Number 2023.57
Classificationsprint
CopyrightPublic Domain
InscriptionsXXXIX HORREND AE ET INVISITA- T Æ VASTITATIS URSVS SOCIORVM noftrorum duos dilaniat. 4. (u,c print) CUm in quadam, nostris Insula Statuum dicta, applicaremus, lapillos quosdam Adamantibus haud diBimiles n autæ nostri inibi inuenerunt: quos ob id magna diligentia colligebant. Binis vero eorum quadam in fouea istos quærentibus derepente prægrandis & valtus Ursus occurrens, alterum collo prehensum, confecit. Quodalter in proximo videns, aufugiens, ad vrfum impetendum sociorum 20. exciuit. Quibus accurrentibus, & telis bestiam adorientibus, è medio illorum adhuc unus ab ea correptus, frustillatim discerptus est. Urso tandem strato & deiecto corium detractum Amstelrodamum importatum est. (l,c print) 1 3 (l,r print) c. 1599 295.00 (l,r graphite)
Portfolio/SeriesLes Petits Voyages, Vol. 3, Part 3 India Orientalis
ProvenanceJeffrey Hunter, Des Moines; Des Moines Art Center [gift of the previous, 2023]
Horrendæ et Inusitatæ Vatitatis Ursus Sociorum nostrorum duos dilaniat (A Bear of Horrible and Unusual Desolation may tear two of our Companions to pieces), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 3, Part 3 India Orientalis"
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Argumentum III. Edicti Regii, de quo cap.3.fecundi libri agitur, executio. (Argument III. The execution of the Royal Edict, of which chapter 3 of the fruitful book is discussed.), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 1, India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1598
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Batavorum primus ad Gabam Flumen appulfus (The Dutch were the first to land on the river Gabam), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 2, India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1599
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
De Brachmanis siue Sacerdotibus Indorum, item de mercatoribus eorundem (Of the Brahmins or priests of the Indians, likewise of the merchants of the same), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 2, India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1599
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
XVI. Delineatio Solennitatis, Qua Nobiles Creari Solent. (Delineation of how a Nobleman is made), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 1, Part 6 India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1604
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Idolum Indorum Pagodes, & Templa Mahumetanorum (Pagodas of the Indian Idols, & Temples of the Mohammedans), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 2, Part 2 India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1599
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Descriptio Insulæ Maduræ, et Qvid Hollandis Ibi acciderit (A description of the island of Madurae, and what happened to the Dutch there), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 5, India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1601
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Repræsentatio Virorum Quorundam in Auriefero Guineæ littore habitantium (Representation of Certain Men Inhabiting the Golden Coast of Guinea), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 6, India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1604
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
De Chinensium conuiuiis, & quomodo ægrotos consolentur (Of the marriages of the Chinese, and how the sick are consoled), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 2, Part 2 India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1599
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Status Officiatorum Lusitanorum in India (Status of Portuguese Officers in India), from "Les Petits Voyages, Vol. 2, India Orientalis"
Johann Theodor de Bry
Johann Israel de Bry
1599
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Circe Changing the Companions of Ulysses into Beasts
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
ca. 1650-1655
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Zerschossene (Shot to Pieces)
Otto Dix
1924
Photo Credit: Rich Sanders, Des Moines
Les grands et les petits, from "Un autre monde"
J.J. Grandville
1844