Vue des ruines du chateau de Christophe Colomb à Santo-Domingo – Antique Print
![Vue des ruines du chateau de Christophe Colomb à Santo-Domingo, [18--?] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/33/336faa00fcbe-L.webp)
(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: Vue des ruines du chateau de Christophe Colomb à Santo-Domingo, preserved in this historic print. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Vue des ruines du chateau de Christophe Colomb à Santo-Domingo
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The title calls this scene the ruins of Christopher Columbus's "castle" at Santo Domingo, though the building was really a residence, the Alcázar de Colón, that his son Diego began in the 1510s after returning to the island as governor. It was among the first large stone houses built by Europeans in the Americas and stood in the colonial city's center for generations. By the 1800s, when this etching was made, the structure had fallen into decline, and prints like this one fed a European and American fascination with Columbus and with the abandoned monuments of the early Spanish colonies.
| Created / published | [18--?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Genre | Etchings 1800-1900. |
| Subjects | Columbus, Christopher--Homes & haunts--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo. Ruins--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo--1800-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184000 |
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