2-613-153 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer, 1912. Vespucci first demonstrated that Brazil and the West Indies did not represent Asia's eastern outskirts as initially thought by Columbus. This so called 'New World' came to be called America, taking its name from Americus, the Latin version of Vespucci's first name. After a sculpture Gaetano Grazzini (1786-1858) which occupies one of the niches beneath the porticos of the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. Taken from 'A Book of Discovery', published by T. C. & E. C. Jack Ltd. 1912.