Design for a Frontispiece, Allegory of America, Graphite, pen and brown ink, red chalk, brush and gray wash on white paper lined with heavy laid paper, Reclining figures, symbolizing American Indians, flank a bison head, forming adjuncts to a cartouche enframement. At either side, portrait busts of Amerigo Vespucci, left, and Christopher Columbus, right. Crocodiles form outer side extremities, left and right (left one may be a later addition)., Netherlands, ca. 1590, figures, Drawing

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