Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Christopher Columbus Genevois Vixit, 1493
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Accession number:
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80-160
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Record number:
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80-160-3
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JCB call number:
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D676 P738l / 2-SIZE
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Image title:
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Christopher Columbus Genevois Vixit, 1493
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Place image published:
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[Cambridge]
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Image publisher:
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[John Hayes, for William Lee]
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Image date:
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[1676]
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Image function:
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illustration, p. 88
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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8.5 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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6.8 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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34.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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21.1 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Portrait of Christopher Columbus holding an astrolabe and pointing to the stars.
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Source creator:
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Thevet, André, 1502-1590
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Source Title:
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[Vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres. English] Prosopographia: or, Some select pourtraitures and lives of ancient and modern illustrious personages ...
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Source place of publication:
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Cambridge
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Source publisher:
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Printed by John Hayes, for William Lee, at the Turks Head in Fleetstreet, over against Fetter Lane, London
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Source date:
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1676
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notes:
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Text describes Columbus's discovery of the West Indies.
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Time Period:
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1651-1700
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1979.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Portraits
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Subject headings:
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Columbus, Christopher
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