Columbus in India primo appellens, magnis excipitur muneribus ab Incolis. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Columbus in India primo appellens, magnis excipitur muneribus ab Incolis.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Taíno; Indigenous peoples – First contact with Europeans – West Indies; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Gifts
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Hispaniola; Haiti; Dominican Republic; Antilles, Greater; West Indies; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
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. This image is identical to one found on page 165 of Frankfurt, 1594.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23717
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M. CCCCXCII
Parent Collection: 1594 Latin; 1594 Latin
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Hispaniola; Taíno; Indigenous peoples – First contact with Europeans – West Indies; Columbus, Christopher – Landfall; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Gifts

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