Insula hyspana · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Insula hyspana
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Taíno; Indigenous peoples - First contact with Europeans - West Indies; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall
Period: 1450-1500;
Geographic: West Indies; Greater Antilles; Hispaniola; Imperial Spain; Free Imperial City of Basel; Switzerland
Description: Christopher Columbus is shown arriving at one of the islands he came across on his first voyage to the West Indies. A large multi-oared boat sits in the foreground (not an accurate representation of the type of ship Columbus sailed on to cross the Atlantic) and closer to shore Columbus is shown with another man in a small rowboat. A group of Indigenous people stands on the shore, appearing nervous or timid as they watch Columbus approach. Columbus’s arms are outstretched, offering an object to the Indigenous people.
Image Creator: Unknown (Woodcutter);Jakob Wolff (Printer); Unknown (Woodcutter); Jakob Wolff (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Woodcut
Identifier: mta:22901
Language: lat
Source Name: De Insulis inuentis
Parent Collection: 1493 Basel; 1493 Basel
Image: mta_22901_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – West Indies; Taíno; Indigenous peoples - First contact with Europeans - West Indies; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall