[Europeans are shipwrecked near the coast of Brazil, close to several European and Tupinambá settlements] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Europeans are shipwrecked near the coast of Brazil, close to several European and Tupinambá settlements]
Subject: Tupinamba; Sailing ships; Shipwrecks; Colonists; Coastal settlements; Fortification - Brazil; Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: São Vicente; São Paulo; Brazil; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Itanhaém; Bertioga
Description: A European ship – broken in half – sinks near the coast of Brazil. Several men swim towards shore, with many clinging to debris, where several survivors already stand near the water helping others onto land. There are several settlements, both Indigenous and European, near the shipwreck site: on nearby island St. Maro there is a European settlement and a fortification wall, on a second island, St. Vincetii, there are two settlements and several single dwellings. To the left is a Tupinambá village labelled 'Brikioka' and on the right is another called 'Itenge Ehm'. There is an unlabeled village close to where the European men have come ashore.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Hans Staden (Artist); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23248
Language: lat
Source Name: Americæ tertia pars Memorabile provinciæ Brasiliæ Historiam continēs, germanico primium sermone scriptum à Ioāne Stadio Hombergensi Hesso, nunc autem latinitate donatam à Teucrio Annaeo Priuato Colchanthe PO: & Med: Addita est Narratio profectionis Ioannis Lerij in eamdem Provinciam, quā ille initio gallicè conscripsit, postea verò Latinam fecit. His accessit Descriptio Morum & Ferocitatis incolarum illius Regionis, atque Colloquium ipsorum iodiomate consciptum.
Parent Collection: 1592 Wechel
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