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Allegory of America
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The personified Navigation shows a globe to a man with a feathered headdress holding a cornucopia. In the foreground, a putto in the guise of Mercury, holding the portrait of Columbus in his hand. Next to him, a putto with a Spanish flag. In the lower margin, a five-line Dutch text.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAllegorie op Amerika. 1765. Jan Caspar Philips. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
