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The Discovery of America, plate 1 from the "Nova Reperta" (New Inventions of Modern Times)
Theodoor Galle, Stradanusca. 1590
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
New York, United States
Amerigo Vespucci is seen standing holding a banner and sextant, conversing with a nude indigenous woman seated in a hammock. Animals and cannibals in the distance; a ship at the left. Inscribed below: AMERICA (Americen Americus retexit -- Semel vocavit in de semper excitam)
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- Title: The Discovery of America, plate 1 from the "Nova Reperta" (New Inventions of Modern Times)
- Creator: Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 1523–1605, Theodor Galle, ca. 1571 - 1633
- Date Created: ca. 1590
- Location Created: Antwerp, Netherlands
- Publisher: Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612
- Original Source: See this work of art on the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum website
- Medium: Engraving on laid paper
- Credit line: Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde
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