Columbus and the egg. Christopher Columbus stands an egg on the table in a wager with several noble Spaniards. Woodblock engraving after William Hogarth from The Penny Magazine, of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, printed by William Clowes, Lambeth, 1833.

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