2006.004.0005
2006.004.0005

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The Strange Sheep-like Creatures that Carried the Silver-Ore
2006.004.0005
1602
One print from a nine part series by Joahnn Theodore de Bry entitled Historia Americae sive Novi Orbis, or Grand Voyages. This print illustrates a train of llamas loaded with ore from the mines ready to carry it to the city of Potosí for refining (Plate 4, from Part IX, published 1602 with German text).

30 cm H x 23 cm W