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Description Copper engraving (made in the Netherlands) showing Dutch activities on the shore of Mauritius, as well as the first published depiction of a dodo bird (Raphus cucullatus), on the left. The now extinct tortoise Cylindraspis and an unidentified Pteropus (bat) are shown as well.
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Source Het Tweede Boeck, scan from http://julianhume.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/History-of-the-dodo-Hume.pdf
Author Attributed to
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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creator QS:P170,Q1696381
and John Israel De Bry, accompanying journal of Cornelis Jacob Van Neck

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