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[The return of Columbus in chains to Cadiz] – Vintage Wall Art

[The return of Columbus in chains to Cadiz], [between 1844 to 1846] — antique engraving
[The return of Columbus in chains to Cadiz], [between 1844 to 1846]. 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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[The return of Columbus in chains to Cadiz] comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Leutze's 1842 painting shows the moment in 1500 when Christopher Columbus arrived at the Spanish port of Cadiz in chains, after the royal governor Francisco de Bobadilla had him arrested on Hispaniola. Stephen Alonzo Schoff's engraving translates that scene into a black-and-white image for wider circulation in the 1840s, when American audiences were eager for heroic episodes from the Age of Discovery. Leutze, a German-born painter who worked in Düsseldorf before settling in the United States, chose a moment of humiliation rather than triumph, which makes the image a study in the fragility of a celebrated explorer's reputation.

Created / published[between 1844 to 1846]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreEngravings 1840-1850.
NotesEngraving by Stephen Alonzo Schoff after the painting (1842) by Emanuel Leutze. Information on title and artist provided by researcher, 10/24/2007.
SubjectsColumbus, Christopher--Capture & imprisonment.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,154 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114285

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