Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 Public Domain. Release under the CC BY Attribution license--http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/--Credit both “University of Southern California. Libraries” and “California Historical Society” as the source. Digitally reproduced by the USC Digital Library; From the California Historical Society Collection at the University of Southern California Send requests to address or e-mail given USC Libraries Special Collections specol@usc.edu
Description
Photograph of a painted portrait of Hernando Cortes, conqueror of Mexico, [s.d.]. Cortes is shown from his waist to his head and is turned to the right. He is wearing ornately engraved armor. He has short dark hair swept back over his head and a thick dark beard and mustache. There is a plume behind him at left, and a curtain behind the feather. Cortes was born in Spain in 1485 and died December 2, 1547.
Type
image
Format
2 photographs : photonegative, photoprint, b&w 18 x 13 cm., 26 x 21 cm. negatives (photographic) photographic prints photographs art
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