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Title: The death of Columbus
Creator: L. Prang & Co., printer
Prang Educational Company, publisher
Contributor: Last, Jay T., donor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1893
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Image of Christopher Columbus lying on his deathbed surrounded by men praying for him, including priests with cross and rosary; print produced for the World's Fair Columbian Exhibition.
"Copyright 1893 by L. Prang & Co. Boston."--text, bottom left margin. "Published by the Prang Educational Co., Boston, U.S.A."--text, bottom right margin. "Columbus died, May 20, 1506, at a poor inn at Valladolid, Spain. His last words were: 'Into thy hands, O Lord, I commend my soul.' He died 18 months after Isabella, the Queen of Spain. Ferdinand, her consort, gave him a grand funeral. In 1536 Columbus' remains were taken to the New World, and they are now at Havana."--text, bottom center margin.
Type: image
Extent: 1 lithograph : color printed ; overall 61.6 x 77.15 cm (24 1/4 x 30 3/8 in.)
Identifier: priJLC_PRG_002091
478903
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16003coll4/id/3384
Language: English
Subject: Columbus, Christopher--Pictorial works
Deathbeds--Pictorial works
Priests--Pictorial works
Lithographs--Color--1875-1900. (gmgpc)
Source: Jay T. Last Collection
Louis Prang Archive
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The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library

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