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Description
Photograph of a painted portrait depicting Vasco Nunez de Balboa, discoverer of the Pacific Ocean, [s.d.]. Balboa is pictured from his waist to his head and is facing to the left and gesturing. He is wearing metal armor and a metal plumed helmet. Balboa has a dark mustache and goatee and a thin nose. He is holding a telescope in his hand at right, near his sword. There is a thick-trunked tree in the background. He died at the Isthmus of Panama in 1519.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 18 x 13 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs art
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