Triumfa España en las Americas (The Triumph of Spain in the Americas), 18th century, Spanish, Cotton, block printed, H. 16 x W. 30 inches, Textiles-Printed, In this Spanish printed cotton, 'America' is a Native American female supported on a litter by two young men in a stylized tropical environment. In the sixteenth century, Europeans began personifying the Americas as an exotic native woman
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Triumfa Españ en las Americas, Triumph, Spain, Americas, 18th century, Spanish, Cotton, block printed, H, 16 x W, 30 inches, Textiles-Printed, Spanish printed cotton, America, Native American, female, supported, litter, two young, men, stylized tropical, environment, sixteenth, Europeans, personifying, exotic native, woman
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