Landing of Columbus – Antique Print
![Landing of Columbus, [between 1860 and 1880] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5e/5e0badf004ee-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.)
Description
A window into the past: Landing of Columbus, preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Landing of Columbus
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Columbus stepping ashore in the Caribbean is the moment this hand-colored lithograph captures, with the Indigenous figures dressed in the clothing the record places in the 1490s. Columbus reached the Bahamas in October 1492 and landed on the island he named San Salvador, an encounter that began sustained European contact with the Americas. Printed sometime between 1860 and 1880, the picture reflects how the voyage was romanticized for American audiences of that period. Because the color was applied by hand, individual copies of such prints can differ noticeably in tone and detail.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1880] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1860-1880. |
| Subjects | Columbus, Christopher--Journeys--Caribbean Area. Indians of the West Indies--Clothing & dress--Caribbean Area--1490-1500. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,446 × 1,185 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218112 |
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