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Estatua de Colón en el Museo de la Ciudad

Statue of Columbus on the City Museum

J. Cucchiari
1862

La Habana / Estatua de Colón en el Museo de la Ciudad

Description

Marble statue of Columbus with his right hand resting on a globe and with his left hand pointing to that globe.

Annotation

On the telephone card is written: Escultura de Cristóbal Colón. Realizado en mármol de Cararas, obra del escultor italiano J. Cucchiari. Fue ubicada desde 1862 en el patio del antiguo Palacio de los Capitanes Generales, en la Habana Vieja. Esta edificación es una de las más importantes de la arquitectura cubana del siglo XVIII y que hoy alberga el Museo de la Ciudad de La Habana.

This monument on postcards

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This monument on stamps

The statue is depticted on a Cuban stamp, which is also on verso of the postcard!

Stamp with Columbus Monument on verso of the postcard Scott 611

Sculptor

J. Cucchiari

Sources & Information

Cuban Telephone Card, Oct. 2000. Author's collection.
Postcard (with stamp), author's collection
Stamp, collection of Alex Borgogno.
Michel Pacou, "Trip to Cuba." Discovery! Journal of the Christopher Columbus Philatelic Society vol. 18, no. 1 (12 Jan. 2000): 1232.
Néstor Ponce de León, The Columbus Gallery (New York, 1893), p. 96.
J.M. Dickey, Christopher Columbus and his Monument Columbia (1892), p. 313.

Locatie (N 23°8'23" - W 82°21'0") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: cu009; Added: 21 May 2006

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