{"product_id":"engraving-of-chilean-herders-with-long-necked-sheep-and-an-ox-rider","title":"1673 Engraving of Chilean Herders with Long-Necked Sheep and an Ox Rider","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn engraved scene of Chilean herders with long-necked sheep and an ox rider appears in this excerpted leaf from the America's Discoverers chapter of the 1673 German edition of Arnoldus Montanus's account of the Americas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the center of the scene, a long-haired rider sits on a horned ox and holds up two disks ringed with bells. A child clings behind her, and a man in a feathered headband leads the ox by a rope. To the left, a man with a bow stands beside a figure carrying a tray, and between them graze long-necked, woolly animals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe engraving follows the text below on the animals and herders the Dutch met during Joris van Spilbergen's voyage along the coast of Chile. The text describes a strange sheep with a long neck, a hump like a camel's, a hare-lipped mouth and long legs, used for farming and carrying loads, with some owners grazing as many as eight hundred. The shepherdesses are said to ride animals much like oxen and hold copper lids hung with bells, which they shake in rhythm to drive the sheep in or out. Shepherds wear tall feathers on their heads, servants walk ahead, and children sit behind the shepherdess. The same page follows Spilbergen past Isla Santa María and Valparaíso where he burned Spanish villages and into a night battle against Rodrigo de Mendoza's fleet. The text says a Spanish nobleman kept hauling down the white flag of surrender because he would rather die than yield. The reverse closes Olivier van Noort's circumnavigation. It tells the story of a Spanish captain who threw ten thousand pounds of gold overboard in fifty-two chests rather than let the ship be taken. The reverse then opens Spilbergen's voyage for the Dutch East India Company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArnoldus Montanus (ca. 1625–1683), a Dutch minister and schoolmaster, compiled \u003cem\u003eDe Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld\u003c\/em\u003e from earlier chronicles and travel accounts without ever crossing the Atlantic. The Amsterdam publisher Jacob van Meurs issued it in 1671 with a wealth of engravings. John Ogilby's English adaptation followed the same year, and \u003cem\u003eDie Unbekante Neue Welt\u003c\/em\u003e, the German edition attributed to Olfert Dapper, followed in 1673. Its illustrations were drawn by artists who had mostly never seen the Americas either. They mix reported detail with European invention, and they shaped how a generation of European readers pictured the New World.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New World Cartographic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43826378801213,"sku":"92436","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0390\/9705\/files\/92436a.jpg?v=1792071152","url":"https:\/\/nwcartographic.com\/products\/engraving-of-chilean-herders-with-long-necked-sheep-and-an-ox-rider","provider":"New World Cartographic","version":"1.0","type":"link"}