How They Till the Soil
date: label: date made
content: 1591 and 1634
name: label: maker
content: Bry, Theodor de
label: original artist
content: Le Moyne, Jacques
notes: label: Description
content: Theodor de Bry (1528&#8211;1598) was an engraver, bookseller, and publisher active in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1590 de Bry published Thomas Hariot's account of the English attempt to colonize the New World, the ill-fated Roanoke Colony. De Bry engraved several plates for this work based on watercolors made by John Smith, another member of the 1585 expedition. He went on to publish an ambitious and complicated series of illustrated volumes describing exploration in North and South America, based on a number of European sources. This work, known as the Great Voyages series or de Bry's America, was issued in several editions that continued to be produced by de Bry's widow and his heirs after his death.
label: Description
content: The engraved plates in the series represent indigenous people, plants, and animals. They offered Europeans one of the earliest and most accurate visual representations of the inhabitants and environment of the New World. The illustrations circulated widely and were frequently copied and reproduced. De Bry revised his own engravings of John Smith's Virginia subjects he had published in the 1590 Hariot account for his later editions, and he used the work of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a French artist, for the Florida subjects.
label: Description
content: <I>How they till the soil</I> illustrates part two of the Florida series. It is plate 21 from the first Latin edition published in 1591.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: Subject
content: Indians
label: Subject
content: Exploration and Discovery
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Food
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content: Agriculture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.24477
label: catalog number
content: 24477
label: accession number
content: 1977.0425
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Other Terms
content: Print; Intaglio; Engraving
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 29.75 cm x 23 cm; 11 11/16 in x 9 1/16 in