New Inventions of Modern Times [Nova Reperta], The Invention of Clockwork, plate 5

Philips Galle|Theodoor Galle|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

ca. 1600 · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

First plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of a sailor (Vespucci) coming to shore and discovering America. He encounters a native woman seated in a hammock. In the background different figures are seated on the ground; a woman roasts a human leg on a wood-burning fire. In the middle ground on the right a horse and a bear approach one another. In the foreground on the right an anteater searches for food. On the left a ship rocks in the ocean and another is pushed up against the shore.

Artist

Philips Galle|Theodoor Galle|Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus

Date

ca. 1600

Medium

Engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1949