Discovery of the Mississippi: By Ferdinand De Soto, and his followers, May 1541 – Vintage Print
![Discovery of the Mississippi: By Ferdinand De Soto, and his followers, May 1541, [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/d4/d458028d1416-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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Discovery of the Mississippi: By Ferdinand De Soto, and his followers, May 1541. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Discovery of the Mississippi: By Ferdinand De Soto, and his followers, May 1541
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Hernando de Soto's men reached the Mississippi River in May 1541, and this Currier & Ives lithograph of 1876 pictures that moment as a grand European discovery. The expedition had landed in Florida in 1539 and wandered through the Southeast for nearly three years in search of gold that was never found. De Soto died of fever in 1542 on the river's banks, and his followers sank his body in the water so that Native peoples would not recover it. Printed in New York during the nation's centennial year, the scene reflects how popular illustrators of the period told early exploration as part of the country's origin story.
| Created / published | [New York] : Currier & Ives, 1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1870-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1722. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,686 × 1,329 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174373 |
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