Columbus als er in India erstlich ankommen, wirdt von den Einwohnern mit grossen Geschenk verehret und begabet auffgenommen. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Columbus als er in India erstlich ankommen, wirdt von den Einwohnern mit grossen Geschenk verehret und begabet auffgenommen.
Subject: Taíno; Indigenous peoples – First contact with Europeans – West Indies; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Gifts; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Antilles, Greater; West Indies; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire; Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic
Description: Christopher Columbus is shown standing on the shore of Hispaniola upon his first arrival there. A man, likely Columbus, stands arrogantly in front of two other Spaniards with his spear planted into the ground and one hand on his hip as he gazes at the people in front of him. A group of the island’s Indigenous inhabitants have approached him to offer gifts of jewelry and other treasures. On a spit of land behind Columbus, three Spaniards erect a large cross. Large Spanish ships are anchored along the coast in the background, with Spaniards coming ashore in rowboats. Several Indigenous people flee from the ships.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23700
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend; 1594 Feyerabend
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Taíno; Indigenous peoples – First contact with Europeans – West Indies; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Gifts; Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola

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