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Artist/Creator (1)	Stradanus (1523-1605)
Artist/Creator (1).Nationality	Flemish
Artist/Creator (1).Role	artist
Title/Caption	Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America
Date of Work	ca. 1587-1589
Inscription	Lower right, in pen and brown ink: ioannes stradanus / faciebat. Center, in pen and brown ink: ACIREMA (with the letters backwards Lower center, in pen and brown ink: AMERICUSVESPUCIUS / Florentinus. 1497. Upper left, in tree, above the sloth: Pigritia Left, above running animal, in pen and brown ink: curigon To the left of America's elbow, in pen and brown ink: Anta Left edge, above pinapples, in pen and brown ink: Ananazas
Description of View	Lower right, in pen and brown ink: ioannes stradanus / faciebat. Center, in pen and brown ink: ACIREMA (with the letters backwards Lower center, in pen and brown ink: AMERICUSVESPUCIUS / Florentinus. 1497. Upper left, in tree, above the sloth: Pigritia Left, above running animal, in pen and brown ink: curigon To the left of America's elbow, in pen and brown ink: Anta Left edge, above pinapples, in pen and brown ink: Ananazas Lower left, below anteater, in pen and brown ink: Tamandoa Verso, upper left, in pen and brown ink: Joannes Stradanus f. Verso, center, in pen and brown ink: Americen Americus retexit, et / semel vocavit, inde semper excitam, / Tua sectus orbis nomina ducet. Hor. us Ode 17 lb. 3. / parque tuum terrae tertia nomen habet. Ovidus Fastores. Verso, top right: Omdat ut ock werstaen zet van et ghedierte ghetheckent / Tamandoa es groet gheleck in scaep hest breede woeten / om den mieren te crabben bij den andren en hest in lang(e) / smalle langhe splete waer de mont in langhe tongh(e) / om de mieren op te lecken in ronde oerren. cergon es in ghedierte van de groete ghleck in woes / hachter gheleck in scominkel hest tuee sacken onder aer / buck daer si aer kinderen in dracht al sughende ghet (?) Anta gheleck in eesel of klene mulle corte stert ro(onde) / hoerren de onder leppe lanck ront. Pigritia groet gheleck wos clemt op de boeme de woeten / winghers kan van aer groeten buck in 15. daghen gh(aen) / in zoe warre als sen met in sten woerpen zoude. Vide Petrum Mafeum Bergomatem Jesuitum / Historiarum Indicarum tome 2 es. Verso, bottom right, in pen and brown ink: Do Christophoro Colombo. Verso, lower left, in graphite.
Technique/Process	Painting: paintings
Materials/Medium	Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk. Incised.
Dimensions	Overall: 7 1/2 x 10 9/16in. (19 x 26.9cm)
Period	Sixteenth Century
Culture	Flemish
Location.Current Site/City & Country	New York (N.Y.)
Location.Current Repository	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Repository Notes	Gift of the Estate of James Hazen Hyde, 1959
Subject	Painting, Flemish Painting, 16th century Figures, female Figures, male Nudes, female Personification Animals Explorers American iconography Exploration and discovery Native Americans
Publisher	Metropolitan Museum of Art
Publisher.Location	New York (N.Y.)
Credit Line	Image [copyright] The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Reference Number	Met-05184
Collection Title	Painting (Art and Art History Department images)
Collection Information	Collection administered by Visual Resources manager, Architecture Library (402) 472-1193
Copyright Information	http://contentdm.unl.edu/ah_copyright.html

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