De Soto and Vitachuco / George Gibbs. – Historic Reproduction
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(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: De Soto and Vitachuco / George Gibbs., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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De Soto and Vitachuco / George Gibbs.
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Vitachuco, the Native leader in this scene, appears in the Spanish accounts of Hernando de Soto's march through the Southeast from 1539 to 1543, and this print shows his meeting with the Spanish captain. It is a halftone reproduction of a drawing by George Gibbs, published in 1898 as a plate facing page 56 of Grace Elizabeth King's *De Soto and His Men in the Land of Florida*. Gibbs's drawing reflects how late nineteenth-century illustrators pictured sixteenth-century encounters, and King's popular retelling helped shape that imagery for American readers. Halftone printing, which let drawings like this run alongside text on the page, was by then common in book publishing.
| Created / published | [published 1898] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1890-1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | Illus. in: De Soto and his men in the land of Florida / Grace Elizabeth King. New York : The Macmillan Company, 1898, facing p. 56. Reproduction of illustration by George Gibbs. |
| Subjects | Soto, Hernando de,--ca. 1500-1542--Journeys--Florida. Vitachuco. Indians of North America--Florida--Meetings--1530-1550. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,283 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181110 |
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