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Departure of Columbus – Historic Reproduction

Departure of Columbus, c1883 Mar. 18. — historic print
Departure of Columbus, c1883 Mar. 18.. Historic print from the Columbus collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic print captures Departure of Columbus in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Departure of Columbus

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Columbus sailed from the port of Palos in August 1492 with three ships, beginning the voyage that would reach the Caribbean that October, and this print takes that moment of departure as its subject. It was registered for copyright around 1883, a period when printmakers and publishers often produced engraved and lithographed scenes from the Columbian story, which was then a popular subject in paintings and illustrated histories. The record gives little information about the maker, so the image is best read as part of the nineteenth-century habit of retelling the departure as the heroic start of the voyage.

Created / publishedc1883 Mar. 18.
Medium1 print.
NotesY13629 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Rios.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,095 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123214

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