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The New Found Land: Engravings by Theodore de Bry from the Collection of Michael N. Joyner
Image Not Available for The New Found Land: Engravings by Theodore de Bry from the Collection of Michael N. Joyner

The New Found Land: Engravings by Theodore de Bry from the Collection of Michael N. Joyner

Friday, January 31, 2014 - Sunday, April 13, 2014
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This exhibition highlighted prints made by the Franco-Flemish engraver Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) to illustrate the 1590 edition of "A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia" by Thomas Harriot. De Bry's images and Harriot's text gave Europeans their first (and lasting) impressions of Native Americans.
More than 40 engravings, some hand-colored and from various editions of the book, were supplemented by related materials from the North Carolina Collection in the Wilson Special Collections Library and the North Carolina Archaeological Collection in the Research Laboratories of Archaeology.