248 COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



No. 96. DESIGN FOR A TOMB OF COLUMBUS BY FONS. 



The design of Francisco Fons represents a sarcophagus supported by six pillars, 

 three at the head and three at the feet. Upon it lies Columbus, represented as iiihis 

 dying bed, with a cross at his head, before which an angel is standing. One hand 

 of the angel is resting on his shoulder and the other is pointing upward. At each 

 corner of the sarcophagus is a winged figure representing Fame. Below it is a globe 

 covered with tropical foliage in relief. About it sit four allegorical figures, and on 

 the sides of the base, supporting the pillars, are symbolical figures in high relief. 



THE FONS DESIGN. 



No. 97. DESIGN FOR MONUMENT TO COLUMBUS AT HAVANA, BY SUSILLO 



(pis. xiv-xvi). 



The design submitted by Don Antonio Susillo \vas adopted for the monument, and it 

 is now being carved. It represents a boat supporting a vessel, which has carved on its 

 bow the date 1492. In it are two figures, one of an Indian and the other of a white 

 man, bearing a cross. On one side is a large medallion of Ferdinand andlsabella. The 

 globe rests on a truncated pyramidal base, which in turn is supported by a pedestal 

 having at each of its four angles an allegorical figure and on each of its faces a 



a bronze bas-relief. 



No. 98. THE SAN DOMINGO STATUE. 



The statue of Columbus in the city of San Domingo, which was founded by 

 Columbus, in front of the cathedral in which his bones lay for two hundred and 

 fifty years, and where it is claimed they still remain, is a heroic statue in bronze. 



