Statue of Columbus [and] the Cathedral – Vintage Print
![Statue of Columbus [and] the Cathedral, c1893. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/aa/aa734a0bf3dd-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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Statue of Columbus [and] the Cathedral comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Statue of Columbus [and] the Cathedral
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This halftone pairs a statue of Christopher Columbus with the cathedral in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic, and it dates to about 1893. The cathedral, begun in the early 1500s, is often described as the oldest cathedral in the Americas, and its long association with Columbus, whose remains were long venerated there, made the two a natural pairing for a city that prided itself on its colonial origins. The print was issued as an illustration in a series of halftone views from the 1890s, when new printing methods made photographs of distant places widely available. Its pairing of a monument and a church offers a useful glimpse of how the city presented its historic center to the outside world.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Illus. no. 2. |
| Subjects | Columbus, Christopher--Statues--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo. Cathedrals--Dominican Republic--Santo Domingo--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,183 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-164147 |
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