. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. JJandtons ? COLUMBUS. \After Capriolo, 596.] A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS 245. THE DE BRY PORTRAIT, THE SECOND OLDEST ENGRAVING, 1595. copy of the Yanez portrait is in the rooms of the Wisconsin HistoricalSociety. The De Bry portrait has been many times engraved ; there is a photo-graph of it in Harisses Notes on Columbus. De Bry claimed that the paint-ing from which he made it was from life, executed by order of Ferdinand, 246 A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS the king. He said that the original picture was stolen from a saloon inthe Cou
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. JJandtons ? COLUMBUS. \After Capriolo, 596.] A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS 245. THE DE BRY PORTRAIT, THE SECOND OLDEST ENGRAVING, 1595. copy of the Yanez portrait is in the rooms of the Wisconsin HistoricalSociety. The De Bry portrait has been many times engraved ; there is a photo-graph of it in Harisses Notes on Columbus. De Bry claimed that the paint-ing from which he made it was from life, executed by order of Ferdinand, 246 A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS the king. He said that the original picture was stolen from a saloon inthe Council for the Indies in Spain, and being taken to the Netherlands fell into his hands. He first produced theplate and used it in Part V. of his Grands Voy-ages in 1595, where it is marked, Engravedby Jean de Bry. Next to the wood-cut of1575 it is the oldest known engraved picture ofColumbus. It gives us a broad, smooth, Dutchface, partly framed by a three-cornered portrait which in its general characteristicsdiffers very little from either the Yanez or theDe Bry representation, is in the gallery atFlorence. It was copied for Th
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