Ein schrecklich und unerhörtes Ungewitter. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Ein schrecklich und unerhörtes Ungewitter.
Subject: Taíno; Hurricanes; Colonists; Spaniards; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall; Colonists; Sailing ships; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Antilles, Greater; West Indies; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic
Description: A violent storm hits the island of Hispaniola, capsizing a European ship and knocking down trees. A group of Spaniards flee the hurricane to the left and a group of Indigenous people run to the right amid the driving rain. Lightning forks through the sky and large waves lash the shore.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23701
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend; 1594 Feyerabend
Image: mta_23701_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Taíno; Hurricanes; Colonists; Spaniards; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall; Colonists; Sailing ships; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola