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File:Vascodagama.JPG

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Artist
Title Vasco da Gama standing in prow of rowboat
Description
English: Vasco da Gama lands at Calicut, May 20, 1498.
Português: Vasco da Gama, navegador e explorador português.
العربية: فاسكو دي جاما وصل إلى ساحل كينكا الهندي
Date circa 1880
Medium watercolor
Source/Photographer

Library of Congress (Illustration for: Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões, edition of 1880.)

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Author Library of Congress
Width 1,127 px
Height 1,456 px
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Pixel composition RGB
Orientation Normal
Number of components 3
Horizontal resolution 300 dpi
Vertical resolution 300 dpi
Data arrangement chunky format
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS2 Windows
File change date and time 01:52, 25 August 2007
Colour space Uncalibrated
Image height 670 px
Image width 1,302 px
Date and time of digitizing 03:52, 25 August 2007
Date metadata was last modified 03:52, 25 August 2007
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