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Columbus at the Court of Barcelona, chromolithograph print – Antique Print

Columbus at the Court of Barcelona, chromolithograph print — antique lithograph
Columbus at the Court of Barcelona, chromolithograph print. Antique lithograph from the Across America collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

Description

Columbus at the Court of Barcelona, chromolithograph print comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

Framed, it is ready for the wall; unframed, it is ready for the frame you choose. Perfect for a home, office, library or classroom wall, and a gift with a story behind it. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.

Columbus at the Court of Barcelona, chromolithograph print

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Columbus returning to Barcelona is the subject here, and the scene draws on the 1493 homecoming, when Ferdinand and Isabella received him at the Spanish court after his first Atlantic voyage. The print is a chromolithograph, a color process that reached its height in the late 1800s and made large, vivid historical scenes affordable for schools, parlors and public buildings. Images like this one were part of a wider American effort to celebrate Columbus as a national hero, especially around the 400th anniversary of his landfall in 1892. Look closely at the crowd and costumes, which show how artists of that era imagined the Spanish court.

Original scan9,836 × 7,583 px · prints to 33 × 25 in at 300 dpi
Reference02387u

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