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Theodor De Bry (1528-1598)
Theodoor de Bry (publisher/printer; printmaker; German; Flemish; Male; 1528 - 1598)
Engraver and founder of a great publishing firm. Calvinist. Born in Liège, emigrated to Strasbourg 1568-77), Antwerp and London (1578-88), and then Frankfurt (1588-1609). He set up a business in which his two sons (Jan Theodor and Jan Israel) worked, as well as Matthias Merian, who became his son-in-law. Their most famous series of volumes were the 'Collectiones peregrinationum in Indiam Orientalem et Occidentalem', which gave the first illustrations of the newly discovered lands; that for America contains plates after the drawings of John White.
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