theodore de bry’s engraving of a ‘pictish woman’ for thomas hariot’s brief and true report of the new found land of virginia (1588).
image source: wikimedia commons, which gives no more precise provenance for this particular version, which has been hand-colored as many copies of hariot’s book were.
adding this info because ‘yeah i wanna be that’ is the exact reaction i had to seeing this image for the first time, too, and wanted to say just massive respect to steph wilson for making that happen for herself.
Listen im just saying scribes ‘prev tagging’ their manuscripts is part of how we lost countless classical works but those who copied out the tags preserved fragments that r sometimes all we have so :// choose which side of history you want to be on
If youve got this tagged “prev tags” im sending a fleet of vikings to sack ur monastery btw
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the mandela effect is so funny like. imagine being confronted with the fact that you misremembered some trivial detail and you have the deranged self confidence to assume that Reality Itself was Altered rather than admit to yourself you were wrong
