Christopher Coumbus with Hernando Cortes receiving a native American girl as a gift mb-artistname Johann Rudolf Schellenburg In the foreground a water

In the foreground a water vessel can be seen on the River Thames

The work is inscribed above with publication and plate details and upper right 'Rhea Americana

falls from the tilting summit of a breaking pillar which rests on the word 'Adultery'

Scene showing a stout man crowned with barley and poppies and bound in a sheaf of barley

For in THIS BOOK the choicest Rules appear

Christopher Coumbus with Hernando Cortes receiving a native American girl as a gift mb-artistname Johann Rudolf Schellenburg In the foreground a waterChristopher Coumbus with Hernando Cortes receiving a native American girl as a gift, (c1820 1839). Plate 5 from Le Costume Ancien et Moderne, Volume I, by Jules Ferrario.