First landing of Columbus on the shores of the New World: At San Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12th 1492 – Vintage Print
(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: First landing of Columbus on the shores of the New World: At San Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12th 1492, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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First landing of Columbus on the shores of the New World: At San Salvador, W.I., Oct. 12th 1492
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The title places this scene at San Salvador in the West Indies on October 12, 1492, the day Christopher Columbus first reached land on his voyage across the Atlantic. The lithograph was adapted from a painting by the Spanish artist D. Puebla and published in New York by Currier & Ives around 1892, the 400th anniversary of that landing. The anniversary drew wide attention to Columbus, and the print reflects the nineteenth-century American tendency to portray him as a heroic founder. Like many of the firm's popular prints, it was made to reach a broad middle-class audience.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, c1892. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1890-1900. |
| Notes | After a painting by D. Puebla. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2138 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,137 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-108937 |
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