Design for a Frontispiece, Allegory of America
date: label: Date
content: ca. 1590
name: label: Attributed to
content: Marten de Vos, Flemish, 1532-1603
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Reclining figures, symbolizing American Indians, flank a bison head, forming adjuncts to a cartouche enframement. At either side, portrait busts of Amerigo Vespucci, left, and Christopher Columbus, right. Crocodiles form outer side extremities, left and right (left one may be a later addition).
place: label: made in
content: Netherlands
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Museum purchase through gift of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1956-39-1
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Graphite, pen and brown ink, red chalk, brush and gray wash on white paper lined with heavy laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 25.3 x 31 cm (9 15/16 x 12 3/16 in.)