Amerigo Vespucci on His Ship, from Americae Retectio (The Discovery of America)

INV-2679

Adriaen Collaert (Flemish, c. 1560–1618) after Jan van der Straet (Flemish 1523–1605)

c. 1589

engravingpaper

Date

c. 1589

Medium

Engraving on ivory laid paper

Dimensions

Plate: 21.2 × 28.2 cm (8 3/8 × 11 1/8 in.); sheet: 23.2 × 29.5 cm (9 3/16 × 11 5/8 in.)

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Location

Chicago, IL

Credit

Charles Hack and the Hearn Family Trust Collection, purchased with funds provided by the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial, Amanda S. Johnson and Marion J. Livingston, anonymous, and Suzanne Searle Dixon endowment funds

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