Christopher Columbus Dying
date: label: Date made
content: 1879
name: label: graphic artist
content: Ferris, Jean Leon Gerome
notes: label: Description
content: Sixteen-year-old Gerome Ferris etched this print in 1879 after his own painting of the dying Christopher Columbus, <i>1506 Last Days of C. Columbus at Vallodolid</i>. The current location of the painting is unknown, but the choice of topic anticipates Gerome’s future as a history painter, focusing on American narrative subjects.
label: Description
content: After death, Christopher Columbus’s journeys were not over. His remains traveled from Vallodolid to Seville and in 1542 were taken to the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic, colonized by Columbus after 1492. After a move to Havana, Cuba, they returned to Seville cathedral in 1898 where they are today.
label: Description
content: The etching was printed on <i>chine-collé</i>, a very thin sheet of paper that accepts the image in passing through the press with a heavier sheet of backing paper to which is it glued during the printing.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jean Leon Gerome Ferris
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.14450
label: accession number
content: 94830
label: catalog number
content: 14450
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 14.5 cm x 11 cm; 5 11/16 in x 4 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 15 cm x 13.5 cm; 5 7/8 in x 5 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: support: 28 cm x 21.5 cm; 11 in x 8 7/16 in