Comme les Habitans de Congo voiagent par terre
"How the Inhabitants of the Congo Travel Overland" (caption translation). This engraving depicts nobility traveling in litters. Pieter van der Aa (1659-1733) was a Dutch publisher known for preparing maps and atlases, though he also printed pirated editions of foreign bestsellers and illustrated volumes. He never traveled to Africa. All three of these images were originally executed by Johan Theodore De Bry (1561–1623) and Johan Israel De Bry (1565–1609) were Flemish brothers, engravers and publishers. They never traveled to Africa and constructed their imagined illustrations from eyewitness accounts of Pieter de Marees of the Voltaic region in 1602 and Duarte Lopez of the Kongo kingdom in the Kwanza North region in 1578. For an extended discussion of the De Brys' imagined illustrations of Africa and their sources see Ernst van den Boogaart, "De Brys' Africa," in Susanna Burghartz, (ed.), Inszenierte Welten: Die west-und ostindischen reisen der verleger de Bry, 1590-1630 (Basel: Schwabe, 2004), p. 95-149.
Image Title
Comme les Habitans de Congo voiagent par terre
RegID
SI-OB-840
Date
1729
Title
Comme les Habitans de Congo voiagent par terre
Source
Pieter van der Aa, La Galerie Agrèable du Monde (Leide: Van Der Aa, 1729).
Language
Dutch
Item sets
Pre-Colonial Africa: Society, Polity, Culture
Spatial Coverage
Africa--West Central North
Reproduced In
Hans T. D Bry, and Hans I. D Bry, Orientalische Indien, vol. 1-9 (Frankfurt: Franckfurt am Main, 1597).
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
19-Feb-16; 26-Aug-19
Identifier
Africa-A