Columbus before the Queen, by Peter Frederick Rothermel, 1841
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Columbus before the Queen

Peter Frederick Rothermel (born Nescopeck, PA 1812-died Linfield, PA 1895)

1841

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Paintings
Dimensions
62 3/8 x 50 in. (158.4 x 127.0 cm.)
Culture
United States
Museum
Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Museum purchase
Rights
CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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