View of Olinda, Brazil  1662

Lured by the sugar plantations, in the 1630s the Dutch captured vast tracts of the Brazilian coastline from the [br]Portuguese. The city of Olinda was the first to fall, seen here with its cathedral in ruins, but still in use. The foreground features indigenous fauna: an armadillo, a sleeping monkey, a sloth, an anteater, and a lizard. The frame – dating from Post’s time...