. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. as 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 at
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. as 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 Thomas Jeffersonin 1784, which copy is now the property of theMassachusetts Historical Society. The origi-nal painting was believed to have been in theLake Como collection of notables, which Paolo Giovio [Paulus Jovius inLatin] formed at his villa. We give the French portrait opposite for the specific purpose of illustrat-ing the seven-lettered cipher or signature of Columbus, which stands thus: S. S. A. S. X. M. Y. XPO Ferens. The first half of the last line XPO (CHRISTO) is in Greek letters,while FERENS is Latin. The initials above the signature are supposedto represent some pious expression. To read these one must begin withthe lower letters and connect them with the upper ones. It was in accord-ance with ancient usage in Spain to accompany the signature with relig-ious words to show that the writer was a Christian, a custom now obsolete. Sir Antonio Moros beautiful portrait of Columbus, which forms thefrontispiece to our June, 1891,* issue, was painted at the Spanish court sometime during the decade between 1543 and 1553. It was copied from twominiature portraits which had been originally painted from life for thecourt of Spain, by order of Queen Isabella, when Columbus was in theflush of triumph ; and it is stated on the best of authority that Moro wasallowed to make but this one copy, and, therefore, that this picture has noduplicate. If there
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