Note 288 — Chapter I · (continued 2)

This Capriolo cut is engraved and accepted in Carderera’s Informe. Löwenstern fails to see how it corresponds to the written descriptions of Columbus’ person. It is changed somewhat from the 1575 cut; cf. Magasin pittoresque, troisième année, p. 316. The two cuts, one or the other, and a mingling of the two, have given rise apparently to a variety of imitations. The head on panel preserved now, or lately, at Cuccaro, and belonging to Fidele Guglielmo Colombo, is of this type. It was engraved in Napione’s Della patria di Colombo, Florence, 1808. The head by Crispin de Pas, in the Effigies regum ac principum, of an early year in the seventeenth century, is also traced to these cuts, as well as the engraving by Pieter van Opmeer in his Opus chronographicum, 1611. Landon’s Galerie historique (Paris, 1805-1809), also shows an imitation; and another is that on the title of Cancellieri’s Notizia di Colombo. Navarrete published a lithograph of the 1575 cut. Cf. Irving’s letter. A likeness of this type is reproduced in colors, in a very pleasing way, in Roselly de Lorgues’ Christophe Colomb, 1879, and in woodcut, equally well done, in the same work; also in J. J. Barry’s adaptation of De Lorgues, New York, 1869. Another good woodcut of it is given in Harpers’ Monthly (October, 1882), p. 729. It is also accepted in Torre’s Scritti di Colombo.