New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Clockwork, plate 5

Theodoor Galle Netherlandish
 After Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus Netherlandish
 Publisher Philips Galle Netherlandish

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First plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of a sailor (Vespucci) coming to shore and discovering America. He encounters a native woman seated in a hammock. In the background different figures are seated on the ground; a woman roasts a human leg on a wood-burning fire. In the middle ground on the right a horse and a bear approach one another. In the foreground on the right an anteater searches for food. On the left a ship rocks in the ocean and another is pushed up against the shore.

New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Clockwork, plate 5, Theodoor Galle (Netherlandish, Antwerp 1571–1633 Antwerp), Engraving

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