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Allegory on America
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The personification of Navigation reveals the continent America on a globe. To the left thereof the personification of America, a man with a feathered headdress and ear-rings, holding a cornucopia. In the foreground a putto in the guise of Mercury, with in the hand a portrait of Columbus, and a putto with a Spanish flag. In the margin a five-line inscription in Dutch.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineAllegorie op Amerika. 1765. Jan Caspar Philips. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
