digitized image of the painting: landscape orientation, panoramic view of the riverscape, with capybara visible bottom center standing at edge of riverbank in side profile

closeup of the capybara in the painting

It’s #CapybaraAppreciationDay!
Frans Post (Dutch, 1612–1680)
View of the Rio São Francisco Brazil with Fort Maurits and a #Capybara, 1639
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre collection:
collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
closeup via commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ri...
#DutchBrazil #ColonialArt

laptop open, printed manuscript in front, highlighter and pen at ready. Black lab mix lays in the background.

Just about ready to send all back to my fabulous copyeditor. Working hard--one of us, anyway! #historiadora #DutchBrazil #PortAtlantic #amwriting

On the 20th day of #BlackHistoryMonth the story one of my favorite people in early modern #Amsterdam: Juliana from #Brazil. Juliana was taken to Amsterdam by the Portuguese merchant Eliau de Burgos after the Portuguese takeover of #DutchBrazil in 1654. #day20 #blackhistorymonth #amsterdam750

Fabulous! And the JCB offers a remote option as well. As I prepare my final ms for production--!!--can't help but reflect on time well spent there. Such a gift, especially for this independent scholar @jcblibrary.bsky.social #DutchBrazil #historiadora

The reviewer noted that "Nieuw Holland"/"New Holland"/ Nova Holanda as an official term for the fleeting colony, is wholly fabricated by historians. Can this be true? TIA! #DutchBrazil #historiadora

Well alrighty! Surfacing to share work on #DutchBrazil has been approved for production, and I'm to get the final formatted ms in next month. One technical q. raised by an anon reviewer has me and others stumped--I can easily sidestep it, not crucial, but ofc want to dig in. (See below)

Well alrighty, then. Grateful to my family, students, amazing editors, fellow researchers, and supporting institutions who believe in this work--and me. It's been no joke to complete this work as an indy scholar these past few yrs. Ms complete, and ready to submit! #DutchBrazil #historiadora

Unreasonably excited to share my research journey & method, this time w/IB HOTA and TOK students at Bay Shore HS, my once-upon-a- "home." Tomorrow can't come fast enough... for anyone, I imagine! #DutchBrazil #resistance #edusky #sschat #iteachsocialstudies