Original antique steel engraving on heavy paper, after William Hogarth: "Columbus Breaking the Egg". The original engraving was issued as the subscription ticket for his treatise on art, "The Analysis of Beauty". It depicts an apocryphal tale (the "Egg of Columbus") which relates Christopher Columbus's response to those who doubted his discovery of the New World.

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Size: 4332px × 3560px
Location: 18th century England
Photo credit: © Powered by Light/Alan Spencer / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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