Rating |
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Title |
Young Pictish Woman |
Title Note |
Title supplied by repository. |
Alternative Title |
The trvve picture of a yonge dowgter of the Pictes III [Caption accompanying this engraving in the English translation of this text.] |
Creator |
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. |
Contributor |
White, John, fl. 1585-1593. |
Date |
1590 |
Creation Date |
1590 |
Description |
Pictish woman, with elaborate markings covering her whole body, shown standing with legs crossed, holding a long spear. There are houses visible in the background. Note: These DeBry engravings do not accurately reflect the inhabitants of North Carolina in the late sixteenth century nor are they accurate reproductions of John White’s drawings. The colorist for this volume has contributed to the distortion of the original images by adding a pale skin tone and blonde hair to some of the people and decorating much of the vegetation in colors that are unlike anything that occurs naturally in this part of the world. |
Subject |
Picts Women Spears Body marking |
Subject Name |
Bry, Theodor de, 1528-1598. White, John, fl. 1585-1593. |
Subject Topical |
North Carolina--Description and travel--Early works to 1800. |
Location |
Great Britain |
Geographic Location |
Great Britain |
Notes |
In the English translation of this text, Thomas Hariot describes this image: "The trvve picture of a yonge dowgter of the Pictes III. THe yong dougters of the pictes, did also lett their haire flyinge, and wear also painted ouer all the body, so much that noe men could not faynde any different, yf the hath not vse of another fashion of paintinge, for the did paint themselues of sondrye kinds of flours, and of the fairest that they cowld feynde. being fournished for the rest of such kinds of weappon as the woemen wear as you may see by this present picture a thinge trwelly worthie of admiration." Source: Thomas Hariot, "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia." Frankfort: Theodore De Bry, 1590. |
Original Form |
Books |
Resource Type |
Image |
Physical Description of Original |
24 cm H x 16.5 cm W |
Medium of Original |
Paper |
Collection in Repository |
North Carolina Collection |
Is Part Of |
[America. pt. 1. German] Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia ... Erstlich in engelländischer Sprach beschrieben durch Thomam Hariot, vnd newlich durch Christ. P. in Teutsch gebracht. Franckfort am Mayn, Gedruckt bey J. Wechel, in Verlegung D. Bry, 1590. North Carolina Collection call number FVCC970.1 H28w. |
Digital Collection |
DeBry Engravings |
Repository |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection. |
Host |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
path |
\ncc\debry\ |
Local Identifier |
FVCC970.1 H28w |
Citation |
In "Wunderbarliche, doch warhafftige Erklärung, von der Gelegenheit vnd Sitten der Wilden in Virginia . . ." [America, pt. 1, German], Frankfort: Theodore De Bry, 1590, p. 107. North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
Related Resource |
The full text of Thomas Hariot's "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" is available online through Documenting the American South at http://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/hariot/menu.html |
Copyright |
Public Domain |