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Image Number
Photographer
Date
Rights
Collection
Geographic Term
Subject Term
Colonialism
Huguenot colony
French Protestants
Defensive works
Forts
Engravings (Prints)
French Exploration, North America
Boats and boating in art
Colonists in art
Fortification--Design and construction
Artists
Printmakers
Engravers
Engraving
Protestants--France
Huguenots--La Florida
French--La Florida
Building in art
Additional Creator
Additional Creator
Physical Description
General Note
The engravings published by Theodor de Bry in Grand Voyages (1591), after watercolors made by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, are the earliest known European depictions of Native Americans in what is now known as the United States. Le Moyne, a member of the short-lived French colony known as Fort Caroline founded by Huguenot explorer Rene Goulaine de Laudonniere (ca. 1529-1574), based the watercolors on his experiences in Florida in the 1560s. De Bry later published Le Moyne's work, along with other illustrations of the New World, as part of an effort to encourage European colonization in the Americas.
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