Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country – Historic Print
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Description
A window into the past: Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country, preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Columbus Taking Possession of the New Country
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Here Columbus is shown at the moment of formal possession, planting the flag and claiming new land for the Spanish crown rather than sailing or landing. When he reached the Caribbean in October 1492, he named the first island San Salvador and took it for Spain, following a ritual the crown used to assert ownership of newly found territory. Artists in the 1800s often returned to this scene and turned it into a heroic origin story for the Americas. The flags, kneeling figures and gestures tell viewers as much about the period that made the picture as about the events of 1492.
| Original scan | 1,444 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 3g01786_ |
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