
Vasco Nunes de Balboa
Vasco Nunes de Balboa (1475 - 1519) Spanish conquistador and explorer, the first European to see the east of the Pacific Ocean, September 1513. Balboa taking possession of 'Seas, Lands, and Coasts and Islands of the South' in the name of the King and Queen of Castile (Ferdinand and Isabella). engraving c1860
Credit
Universal Images Group
/ Universal History Archive
Dimensions
3500 x 4404 pixels
Print Size @ 300 dpi
12 x 15 inches / 30 x 37 cm