Columbus's Arrival in America 1492

A century after the discovery and occupation of America by Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506), Theodor de Bry (1528–1598) visualized the first encounter in an engraving. The fictitious scene illustrates an account (Americae Pars Quarta, Frankfurt 1594) by Girolamo Benzoni (1519–1570).

Theodor de Bry (1528–1598), Ankunft des Kolumbus in America 1492, copperplate engraving, 1594, in: Benzoni, Girolamo: Americae pars quarta, siue, Insignis & admiranda historia: de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M. CCCCXCII / scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanense ... omnia elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry...,  Frankfurt am Main 1594; source: Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-59702, http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003680406/, public domain.