Print

TitleThe Strange Sheep-like Creatures that Carried the Silver-Ore

Accession Number2006.004.0005

Date1602

DescriptionOne 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).