Outina Defeats His Enemy with French Aid, Engraving

An engraved plate shows dense groups of figures in a battle scene, with armed men in the foreground striking at one another and bodies lying on the ground. Rows of warriors and a distant village fill the background. Latin caption above and handwritten French notes below frame the image on a printed page.

Artist

Theodor de Bry

Date

1591

Medium

engraving on paper mounted on paper

Source

Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)

Size

2033 × 3000 px

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum