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[Christopher Columbus, bust portrait, facing right, in medallion]

[Christopher Columbus, bust portrait, facing right, in medallion]

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11060 U.S. Copyright Office.

Library has four (4) impressions.
No. 1 is a remarque proof before letters, with two remarques printed below image. In the image on the left, Columbus appears to be demonstrating that the world is round to a group of people standing around a table, and in the image on the right, he is depicted at the Convent of la Rabida. This print bears a copyright stamp in lower right. Imprint statement is printed at top. Printed in Paris.
No. 2 is a remarque proof before letters with vignette of Columbus and group of people at a table. In the single remarque printed below the image, Columbus appears to be demonstrating that the world is round. Imprint statement is printed at top. Printed in Paris. Inscribed in ink: To the Hon. G.G. Hubbard with compliments of the publisher, V.G. Fisher. Signed in pencil "F.Focillon" lower right.
No. 3 is a remarque proof before letters, with two remarques printed below image. In the image on the left, Columbus appears to be demonstrating that the world is round to a group of people standing around a table, and in the image on the right, he is depicted at the Convent of la Rabida. Imprint statement is printed at top. Printed in Paris. Blind stamp "Boussod, Valadon & Co. Paris" bottom, center. Signed in pencil "F.Focillon" lower right.
No. 4 "painted by Bartholomeo de Suardo (Giovio) ; etched by F. Focillon." Imprint statement is printed at bottom "Published and copyrighted by Wm. H. Lowdermilk and Victor G. Fisher, 1892 Washington, D.C." Printed on laid paper with watermark at bottom center.
Etching by F. Focillon after painting by Bartholomeo de Suardo.
Copyrighted 1892.
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