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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



No. 101. THE PILAR STATUE, MEXICO. 



A statue of Columbus, designed by Pilar, was erected in the Paseao de la Reforma, 

 City of Mexico, October, 1892. 



No. 102. THE STATUE AT COLON. 



In the Colombian seaport which was christened Colon, in honor of the famous 

 discoverer, but to which modern commerce has given the less distinguished and less 

 appropriate name of Asp in wall, stands a bronze group of Columbus, by Vicente 

 Vela, an Italian sculptor, the gift to that place of Eugenie, late unfortunate Empress 

 of the French. It represents its subject clothed in the semimonkish garb which he 



sometimes Avore, with his right hand touching, as 

 if to protect, the half-clad Indian woman by his side, 

 and is a pleasing and artistic monument. 



No. 103. THE FOUNTAIN AT COLON. 



A fountain at Colon is also dedicated to Columbus r 

 and in one side of the column is a bas-relief in marble 

 representing the landing at Guanahaiii. 



No. 104. THE STATUE AT LIMA, PERU. 



The statue of Columbus at Lima, Peru, was erected 

 in 1850, by Salvatore Rovelli, an Italian, at the ex 

 pense of the Republic, and it was dedicated with great 

 ceremony. It is a handsome group, representing 

 Columbus in the costume of a courtier of the six 

 teenth century, raising an Indian girl from the 

 ground. The pedestal is of marble, bearing the in 

 scription &quot;A Cristoval Colon&quot; upon one face, and 

 upon theotherthree faces handsome urns intended for 

 tropical plants, and the bust is handsomely carved 

 with geographical and astronomical designs. 



No. 105. THE VALPARAISO STATUE. 

 PILAR STATUE. At Valparaiso, Chile, is a marble statue of the dis 



coverer, of heroic size. It stands at an angle of two 



streets and in front of one of the handsomest houses of the city. The figure is of 

 bronze and the pedestal of marble. On the several faces of the latter are appro 

 priate inscriptions and representations of nautical implements. In the figure Colum 

 bus stands in an advancing attitude, holding a cross in his right hand. 



No. 106. BUST AT SANTIAGO, CHILE. 



The bust of Columbus at Santiago, Chile, is of marble, and represents a face of the 

 De Bry type, with a Dutch cap and garments. 



No. 107. THE GENOA MONUMENT (plates xvii and xvin). 



That which is admitted to be the finest existing monument to Columbus stands 

 near the railway station in Genoa, the city of his birth. The Genoese monument 

 was erected in 1862. It was first ordered from the sculptor Bartolini, who shortly 

 after died. Freccia then took it up, but had only just finished a rough model; 

 however, it was finished by Franzone and Svanascini, of Carra. It consists of a 

 huge quadrangular pediment, at the angles of which are seated allegorical figures of 

 Religion, Geography, Strength, and Wisdom. Resting 011 this pediment is a large 

 cylindrical pedestal decorated with ships prows, upon which stands a collossal 

 statue of Columbus, with his left hand resting upon an anchor. At his feet, in a 



