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An extremely decorative chart, illustrating the voyage of the Dutchman, Willem Baren s, round the north of Lapland to Novaya Zemblya. He died during this voyage in 1597, in his attempt to find a Northeast Passage. . The chart contains a number of place-names round the coast and the sea is decorated with vignettes of numerous seals and walrus, also whales and other unidentified sea and land creatures. There are several vignettes of Barents' ships, and the camp near an iceflow where he probably died. Decorations include a large compass rose with radiating rhumb lines and two ornate strap-work cartouches
Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) was a prominent Flemish engraver and publisher best known for his engravings of the New World. Born in Liege, de Bry hailed from the portion of Flanders then controlled by Spain. The de Brys were a family of jewelers and engravers, and young Theodor was trained in those artisanal trades.
As a Lutheran, however, his life and livelihood were threatened when the Spanish Inquisition cracked down on non-Catholics. De Bry was banished and his goods seized in 1570. He fled to Strasbourg, where he studied under the Huguenot engraver Etienne Delaune. He also traveled to Antwerp, London, and Frankfurt, where he settled with his family.
In 1590, de Bry began to publish his Les Grands Voyages, which would eventually stretch to thirty volumes released by de Bry and his two sons. The volumes contained not only important engraved images of the New World, the first many had seen of the geographic novelties, but also several important maps. He also published a collection focused on India Orientalis. Les Grands Voyages was published in German, Latin, French, and English, extending de Bry’s fame and his view of the New World.
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