Identifier: magazineofamericv26stev (find matches)
Title: The magazine of American history with notes and queries
Year: 1877 (1870s)
Authors: Stevens, John Austin, 1827-1910. ed. cn DeCosta, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin), 1831-1904. ed. cn Johnston, Henry Phelps, 1842-1923, ed. cn Lamb, Martha J. (Martha Joanna), 1829-1893. ed. cn Pond, Nathan Gillett, 1832-1894 ed Abbatt, William, 1851-1935, comp
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Publisher: New York : A.S. Barnes
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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In the profession of arms. But she attached him to herhousehold and military suite, and he was continually in the royal camp formany years. He was present at the triumphal reception given Columbuson his return from his first voyage by Ferdinand and Isabella, in Barcelona.Martyrs principal work, originally written in Latin, is an account of thediscoveries of the new world, in eight Decades, each containing ten chapters.In writing these he is said to have taken great pains to obtain informationfrom Columbus himself. Martyr was a bustling, gossipy reporter, in thedaily practice of writing letters to celebrated persons, in which he chattedfreely about the doings of the court and of the courtiers and their friends. Columbus. Fac-simile of an engraved copy of the painting by Sir Anthony Moro. Maga-zine of American History, June, 1891 (xxv. 429). Columbus. Fac-simile of the Montanus engraving, 1671. Magazine of American His-tory, September, 1891 (xxvi. 161). A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS 243
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CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS. (Facsimile 0/ a rare print 0/ the oldest wood-cut portrait 0/ Columbus extant, by Paolo Giovio, 1575.) That Columbus was tall, well-built, and of majestic presence, we haveabundant evidence from more than one person who knew him. It wasparticularly stated by Herrera that his face was long, neither full nor thin; 244 A GROUP OF COLUMBUS PORTRAITS and all the ancient writers agree that he had an aquiline nose and highcheek-bones. Fashions were fickle then as well as now ; thus it is notimprobable that in some seasons Columbus appeared with a clean-shavenface and in others with a mustache. He was before a curious public forupwards of a quarter of a century, growing older each year, and his aspectmust have undergone considerable change during that time. The engraved portraits to be found in this countryare so lamentably few that the Euro-pean archives have recently beenexplored and with results both sug-gestive and instructive.* The Cap-riolo engraving, which Cardere

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