Sixteenth-century expeditions deliberately carried artists to document what they saw.

Evidence

The importance of having artists on expeditions of the period was recognized, and Richard Hakluyt the elder in 1585 urged that a skilful artist be taken on all voyages of exploration to North America to describe beasts, fish, etc., as well as towns. — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2150

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider practice of expedition artists; frames the role of visual documentation in Drake’s raids. — connects to: Sixteenth-century voyages expanded physical but not cultural horizons of Europeans; Engravers reworked New World sketches into classical European conventions, taming their subjects — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 608
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Mary Frear Keeler, Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage,…, 2150