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Codice albumBLB-F-068500
found 1 risultati nell'ALBUM
Image IDBLB-F-068500-0000
A Cheiff lorde of Roanoke'. Engraving of an elderly man wearing a double apron-skirt of fringed deerskin, edged with a double row of beads. Round his neck is a short single-string necklace of beads, with a square metal gorget hanging on the chest. The figure is duplicated, to show the rear view, and is set against a landscape of figures fishing from canoes, a weir and trap, and low tree-lined hills,from 'Travels through Virginia' from Theodor De Bry's 'America', vol. I, 1590, after a drawing of John White by William Strachey, (England 1618), Sloane 1622, f.76, British Library, London
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