Note 293 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

Engravings from De Bry’s burin also appeared, in 1597, in Boissard’s Icones quinquaginta virorum ad vivum effictæ; again, in the Bibliotheca sive thesaurus virtutis et gloriæ (Frankfort, 1628-1634), in four volumes, usually ascribed jointly to De Bry and Boissard; and, finally, in the Bibliotheca chalcographica (Frankfort, 1650-1664), ascribed to Boissard; but the plates are marked Jean Théodore de Bry. The De Bry type was apparent in the print in Isaac Bullart’s Académie des Sciences et des Arts, Paris, 1682; and a few years later (1688), an aquaforte engraving by Rosaspina came out in Paul Freherus’ Théâtre des hommes célèbres. For the later use made of this De Bry likeness, reference may be made, among others, to the works of Napione and Bossi, Durazzo’s Eulogium, the Historia de Mexico by Francisco Carbajal Espinosa, published at Mexico, in 1862, tome i, J. J. Smith’s American Historical and Literary Curiosities, sundry editions of Irving’s Life of Columbus, and the London (1867) edition of Ferdinand Columbus’ Life of his father. There is a photograph of it in Harrisse’s Notes on Columbus. De Bry engraved various other pictures of Columbus, mostly of small size,—a full-length in the corner of a half-globe (part vi.); a full-length on the deck of a caravel (in part iv., re-engraved in Bossi, Charton, etc.); a small vignette portrait, together with one of Vespucius, in the Latin and German edition of part iv. (1594); the well-known picture illustrating the anecdote of the egg (part iv.). Not one of these has any claim to be other than imaginative. His larger likeness he reproduced in a small medallion as the title of the Herrera narrative (part xii., German and Latin, 1623-1624), together with likenesses of Vespucius, Pizarro, and Magellan. Another reminiscence of the apocryphal egg story is found in a painting, representing a man in a fur cap, holding up an egg, the face wearing a grin, which was brought forward a few years ago by Mr. Rinck, of New York, and which is described and engraved in the Compte rendu of the Congrès des Américanistes, 1877, ii. 375.