1599 In West Indien [Sir Walter Raleigh in Guiana]

A superb example of Theodore De Bry's depiction of Sir Walter Raleigh attempting to establish friendship with King Arromaia of Guiana. This example comes from the 1st German edition of Americae, PARS VIII, published out of Frankfurt in 1599, one year after De Bry's death. Sir Walter Raleigh Scott is arguably one of the most famous English explorers that ever lived. He was also a favorite of Queen Elizabeth I, who during her reign, both knighted him, rewarded him handsomely as well as held him a prisoner of the Tower of London on three separate occasions. In 1584, 1585 and 1587 Raleigh organized voyages to North America that led to his sponsorship of an English colony on Roanoke Island (now north Carolina), which he named ‘Virginna’ after his adored Virgin Queen, Elizabeth I. In Search of the Golden City of El Dorado Upon release from his second stint as a prisoner of the London Tower, Raleigh set off in 1595 (during the Anglo-Spanish War) to Guinea in South America in search of the myt