Discovery of America: Vespucci Landing in America

Signature: At lower right, inscribed "ioannes stradanus / faciebat" in pen and brown ink

Inscription: At center, inscribed "ACIREMA" (with the letters backwards) in pen and brown ink; at lower center, inscribed "AMERICUSVESPUCIUS / Florentinus . 1497." in pen and brown ink; at upper left, in the tree above the sloth, inscribed "Pigritia"; at left above the running animal, inscribed "curigon" in pen and brown ink; to the left of America's elbow, inscribed "Anta" in pen and brown ink; at left above the pinapples, inscribed "Ananazas" in pen and brown ink; at lower left, below anteater, inscribed "Tamandoa" in pen and brown ink. Verso: at upper left, inscribed "Joannes Stradanus f." in pen and brown ink; at center, inscribed "Americen Americus retexit, et / semel vocavit, inde semper excitam, / Tua sectus orbis nomina ducet. Hor. us Ode 17 lb. 3. / parque tuum terrae tertia nonem habet. Ovidus Fastores" in pen and brown ink; at upper right, inscribed "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."; at bottom right, inscribed "Do Christophoro Colombo." in pen and brown ink; at lower left, inscribed "59.654.1 / 1974.205"

Marking: Verso: at lower right, the collector's mark of William A. Baillie-Grohman (Lugt 370)

William A. Baillie-Grohman; by descent to Mrs. William A. Baillie-Grohman; her sale, Sotheby's, London (British), May 14, 1923, lot 155Purchased by Hyde; James Hazen Hyde (American); Donor: James Hazen Hyde (American)

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