Christopher Columbus – Historic Reproduction
![Christopher Columbus, [no date recorded on caption card] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c7/c71f4afbfcd7-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
This antique engraving of Christopher Columbus brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Christopher Columbus
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Columbus, the explorer, appears here in an engraving by Johann Theodor de Bry, the Frankfurt-based printmaker whose workshop produced many of the illustrated travel and voyage books of the late 16th century. The record gives no date beyond the note that the piece is 16th century, so the image should be read as a later-period European portrait of the navigator rather than a sketch made from life. De Bry's engravings of the Americas helped shape how Northern European readers pictured the Columbian voyages, and this one is worth studying for that role in spreading the image of the explorer.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Notes | Engraving by Johann Thedor DeBry. 16th century. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,258 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-118783 |
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