Print Archive Item

Title
The Strange Sheep-like Creatures that Carried the Silver-Ore
Accession Number
2006.004.0005
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Creation Date
1602
Description
One print from a nine part series by Joahnn Theodore de Bry entitled Historia Americae sive Novi Orbis, or Grand Voyages. This print illustrates a train of llamas loaded with ore from the mines ready to carry it to the city of Potosí for refining (Plate 4, from Part IX, published 1602 with German text).
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Dimensions

30 cm H x 23 cm W

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