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Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona – Vintage Print

Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving
Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona, [no date recorded on caption card]. Antique engraving 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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A window into the past: Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Columbus stands before the Spanish sovereigns at Barcelona, where Ferdinand and Isabella received him in 1493 after his first Atlantic voyage and heard his account of the lands he had reached. The image is an engraving by E.H. De L'Orme after a painting by R. Balaca, so its composition reflects the painter's imagining of the audience rather than a firsthand record of it. The caption card gives no date, and its attribution details are unverified, so the print is best read as a later artist's view of a famous moment in Spanish history.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : engraving.
SubjectsEngraving by E.H. De L'Orme after painting by R. Balaca. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI(2); Spain--Hist.; Pub.(2).
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,098 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157655

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