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Americae Retectio   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Jan van der Straet

Print made by: Adriaen Collaert
Published by: Joannes Galle
Title
Americae Retectio
Description
English: The Discovery of America, Title Plate; with title in cartouche and two portrait medallions depicting Amerigo Vespucci and Christopher Columbus; a globe at centre labelled with three continents resting on the figure of Neptune, surrounded by a drapery held by a bird and the figures of Flora and Janus, representing Florence and Genoa respectively; the two cities' coats-of-arms carried by figures on a chariot at top; the Italian coastline below, including Florence and Genoa
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Depicted people Associated with: Luigi Alamanni (dedicatee)
Date circa 1589
date QS:P571,+1589-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium paper
Dimensions

Height: 209 millimetres (trimmed)

Width: 278 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1869,0213.221
Notes This is the frontispiece to a series of four plates showing the discovery of America after Stradanus (New Hollstein 342-345). The set was first published by Philips Galle around 1598; Johannes Galle re-published the plates in 1638 in the Speculum.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1869-0213-221
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(Reusing this file)		 © The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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