Virginis Pictæ icon. III. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Virginis Pictæ icon. III.
Subject: Indigenous women; Picts; Indigenous peoples – Social life and customs; Body art; Indigenous weapons; Indigenous peoples – Great Britain
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Virginia; North Carolina; United States of America; North America; Frankfurt (Germany); Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Germany; Holy Roman Empire; Secota
Description: A young Indigenous woman is shown from the front. She carries a spear in her left hand. Her hair is long, she wears a twisted cord around her neck, and a sword with a curved blade hangs another cord around her waist. She is nude, and her body is covered in painted designs. The Picts were an Indigenous group who lived in Britain long before the author’s time. Images of Picts were included in this book so that readers could compare their customs to those of the Indigenous people living in Virginia.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Jacques le Moyne de Morgues (Painter); Johann Wechel (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:21312
Language: lat
Source Name: Admiranda narratio fida tamen, de commodis et incolarum ritibus Virginiæ, nuper admodum as Anglis, qui à Dn. Richardo Greinvile equestris ordinis viro eò in coloniam anno M.D.LXXXV deducti sunt inventæ, sumtus faciente Dn. Waltero Raleigh equestris ordinis viro fodinaru stanni præfecto ex auctoritate serenissimæ reginæ angliæ.
Parent Collection: 1590 Latin a briefe...
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