Cape Verde Islands Gallery

Local boys amusing themselves by diving into the sea from a liner at Sao Vicente

3620859 Local boys amusing themselves by diving into the sea from a liner at Sao Vicente, Cape Verde Islands (colour litho) by Dufresne, Paul (fl.1900); Private Collection; (add.info.: Local boys amusing themselves by diving into the sea from a liner at Sao Vicente, Cape Verde Islands. Illustration for Le Petit Parisien, 28 April 1907.); A© Look and Learn; French, out of copyright

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View-Plan of Santiago, Cape Verde Islands, Showing Sir Francis Drake'

985736 View-Plan of Santiago, Cape Verde Islands, Showing Sir Francis Drake's Attack on the Spanish Fort on November 17, 1585, c.1588-9 (hand-coloured engraving) by Boazio, Baptista (fl.1588-1606); 41.7x56 cm; Private Collection; (add.info.: View-Plan of Santiago, Cape Verde Islands, Showing Sir Francis Drake's Attack on the Spanish Fort on November 17, 1585. Illustration for A Summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage by Walter Bigges and Master Croftes. Baptista Boazio (fl.1588-1606). Hand-coloured engraving. 1588-9. 41.7 x 56cm.); Photo A© Christie's Images; Italian, out of copyright

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Sea chart coast Gambia part Senegal Guinea Sierra Leone Pas caarte

Sea chart of the coast of The Gambia and part of the coast of Senegal, Guinea and Sierra Leone Pas caarte of Rio Gambia from C. Verde to Rio de Serraliones (title on object), Guinea and Sierra Leone, with two compass roses, the North is on the left. At the top center the title and the publisher's address, next to which a dark man with a feather-tip is about to hack into two snakes with his ax. A monkey runs away from the snakes. Two buffalo in the background. Bottom right a few mermaids and a sea snake at the scale, shown in German, Spanish and English or French miles (scale: c. 1: 1 500 000), sailing ship, sailing boat, snakes, monsters of the sea, monkeys, apes, Cape Verde islands, Senegal, Gambia, Sierra Leone, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, 1683 - 1799, paper, engraving, h 512 mm × w 582 mm

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