[Europeans come ashore in rowboats, leaving their ship anchored] · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: [Europeans come ashore in rowboats, leaving their ship anchored]
Subject: Indigenous peoples of South America – Brazil; Tupi; Tupinamba; Coastal settlements; Sailing ships; Colonists
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Brazil; South America; Antwerp; Belgium; Spanish Netherlands
Description: A European sailing ship is anchored off the coast of Brazil. A group of Europeans go ashore in rowboats. A group of people on horseback, many of whom carry spears, ride in a group along the coast. There is a large settlement further along the shore in the distance, labelled Cap de Gell.
Image Creator: Hans Staden (Artist); Unknown (Woodcutter); Christophe Plantin (Christoffel Plantijn) (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22988
Language: dut
Source Name: Warachtige historie ende beschrrivinge eens lants in America ghelegen, vviens invvoonders vvilt, naeckt, seer godloos, ende vvreede menschen eters sijn
Parent Collection: 1558 Antwerp
Image: mta_22988_OBJ.png