Sacerdote Virginio One imagines the artist, apparently Italian, did not copy from de Bry directly, but through an intermediary adaption. Compared to earlier representations, the figures are Europeanized and of more comely, even sensuous, proportions. The priest, paired in the upper image with the hunter/warrior, wears a sort of turban, and his fuzzy garment is not tied at the shoulder but sewn. Lithographic prints came into use at the beginning of the 1800s, so this print dates from no earlier than that.
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