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After: Jan van der Straet

Print made by: Theodoor Galle
Title
America
Description
English: Plate 1, The Discovery of America; in the foreground to left, Amerigo Vespucci, holding an astrolabe and staff with a banner of the cross, addresses a naked female wearing a feathered hat, representing America, on a hammock; in the background to left, a sailing ship, another ship just visible by the shore; beyond, a group of cannibals, wild animals roam in the surrounding landscape
Engraving
Depicted people Representation of: Amerigo Vespucci
Date 1588-1612 (c.)
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 200 millimetres
Width: 269 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1957,0413.35
Notes

This is a plate from a series of twenty prints illustrating new inventions and discoveries after Jan van der Straet, for comment see 1948, 0410.4.191.

This print does not appear in the New Hollstein although other prints in the series do (1205-1211).
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1957-0413-35
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