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Hand-colored version of Theodor de Bry’s engraving of a Pict woman (a member of an ancient Celtic people from Scotland). De Bry’s engraving, “The True Picture of a Women Picte,” was originally published as an illustration in Thomas Hariot’s 1588 book A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia.

The woman stands with a long spear held upright in her left hand, and two long spears held horizontally in her right hand. She wears only a large ring around her waist, from which a curved sword hangs behind her, and a smaller ring around her neck. Much of her body appears to be painted or tattooed. In the background, two buildings stand on hillsides.

Theodor de Bry was a Flemish-born engraver and publisher who based his illustrations for Hariot’s book on the paintings of colonist John White. Most of the book’s illustrations depict the native people encountered by Hariot and White on their North American expedition, but A Brief and True Report also contains five engravings of the Picts and their neighbors in ancient Scotland. De Bry included these images “to show how that the inhabitants of the Great Bretannie have been in times past as savage as those of Virginia.” An unidentified artist applied the color to this version of de Bry’s engraving.
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Theodor de Bry  (1528–1598)  wikidata:Q708961
 
Theodor de Bry
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Dietrich de Bry, Theodoor de Bry, Dirk de Bry
Description Southern Netherlandish engraver, drawer, editor and publisher
Date of birth/death 1528 / 1528 Edit this at Wikidata 27 March 1598 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Liège Frankfurt
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Liège, Straßburg, London, Frankfurt
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creator QS:P170,Q708961


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