Vasco da Gama delivers the letter of King Manuel of Portugal to the Samorim of Calicut – 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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Vasco da Gama delivers the letter of King Manuel of Portugal to the Samorim of Calicut. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Vasco da Gama delivers the letter of King Manuel of Portugal to the Samorim of Calicut
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Vasco da Gama's meeting with the Samorin of Calicut is the moment this print depicts, with the Portuguese explorer delivering a letter from King Manuel of Portugal. Calicut, now Kozhikode on India's Malabar Coast, was a major trading port, and da Gama's arrival there in 1498 opened direct sea contact between Portugal and India. Because the record classifies the picture as conjectural, the scene was imagined by an artist, probably long after the event, rather than drawn from life. It reflects how turn-of-the-century viewers pictured the age of exploration as much as it records the encounter itself.
| Created / published | c1905. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : halftone. |
| Genre | Conjectural works 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | Copyright by John D. Morris & Company. |
| Subjects | Gama, Vasco da,--1469-1524. Explorers--1760-1530. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-182579 |
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