![[Balboa claiming the Pacific Ocean for Spain.]](jpegs/35917.jpg)
[Balboa claiming the Pacific Ocean for Spain.][Toma de posesion de la mar del sur.]
[Drawn and lithographed by Vicente Urrabieta Ortiz.]
[Madrid : Lit. J. Donon y Ayguals de Izco, 1849.]
Lithograph with hand colour; rare. Printed area 350 x 445mm (13¾ x 17¾"). Some toning. Cut inside titles.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c.1475-1519) crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and became the first European to reach the Pacific from the New World. From 'Colección de láminas de la Historia de la Marina Real Española. Litografías de los Mejores Artistas Españoles.'
[Ref: 35917] £280.00
[Madrid : Lit. J. Donon y Ayguals de Izco, 1849.]
Lithograph with hand colour; rare. Printed area 350 x 445mm (13¾ x 17¾"). Some toning. Cut inside titles.
Vasco Núñez de Balboa (c.1475-1519) crossed the Isthmus of Panama in 1513 and became the first European to reach the Pacific from the New World. From 'Colección de láminas de la Historia de la Marina Real Española. Litografías de los Mejores Artistas Españoles.'
[Ref: 35917] £280.00