Vasco Núñez de Balboa, 1475-1519 – Antique Wall Art
(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: Vasco Núñez de Balboa, 1475-1519, preserved in this antique engraving. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Vasco Núñez de Balboa, 1475-1519
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A portrait of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, the Spanish explorer who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first European to glimpse the Pacific from the Americas. Engraved in 1791, it appeared as an illustration in a Spanish collection of portraits of notable countrymen, a series that honored explorers and soldiers alongside statesmen and writers. Balboa's career ended in tragedy when he was executed for treason in 1519 after a dispute with the governor Pedrarias Dávila. The print reflects how, nearly three centuries later, Spain was still celebrating its overseas explorers in print.
| Created / published | 1791 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Retratos de los Españoles Illustres con un Epítome de sus Vidos. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. Spanish explorer. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 972 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-117070 |
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