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Caption: Marker detail: Theodor de Bry Engraving from
Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues Sketch
Additional Description: In 1591 Dutch engraver and goldsmith Theodor de Bry published Grand Voyages, which contained the earliest known European images of Native Americans in what is now Florida. De Bry obtained many of the works of Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues, a member of the short-lived French colony in Florida, Fort Caroline.

De Bry's renditions of Le Moyne's sketches are both historically significant and highly controversial. Scholars point out that certain aspects of the engravings do not match later depictions of the Timucua Indians encountered by the French in northeastern Florida, and also contend that de Bry certainly altered the images prior to publication. However, they remain one of the only sets of imagery of the Timucua and are important as such.
Submitted: December 27, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p630262
File Size: 3.492 Megabytes

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