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English: The Abduction of Pocahontas, copper engraving by Johann Theodore de Bry, 1618



"Samuel Argali persuaded Japazaws, werowance of Pasptanzie, to assist him in capturing Pocahontas. Here the werowance and his wife, holding the "small Copper kettle" and "other les valuable toies" given to them by the English, entice Pocahontas to board the English ship Treasurer" (Fausz, J. Frederick. “An ‘Abundance of Blood Shed on Both Sides’: England’s First Indian War, 1609-1614.” The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, vol. 98, no. 1, 1990, pp. 3–56. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/4249117. Accessed 14 Oct. 2024.)
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Source Plate no. 7 in book 'America' (Part 10, translation of 'A True Discourse of the Present State of Virginia' by Ralph Hamor)
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Johann Theodor de Bry  (1561–1623)  wikidata:Q1696381
 
Johann Theodor de Bry
Alternative names
Jan Theodor de Bry, Jan Theodoor de Brij, Jan Theodor de Brij, Johann Theodor de Brij, Jan Theodoor de Bry
Description German publisher, printmaker and drawer
Date of birth/death 1561 Edit this at Wikidata 31 January 1623 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Strasbourg or Liège Bad Schwalbach
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Frankfurt (circa 1612-1613), Oppenheim
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after Georg Keller (1568-1640)
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