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File:Vasco da Gama Leaving Portugal,.jpg

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English: Vasco da Gama Leaving Portugal, mural by John Henry Amshewitz, RBA (1882-1942); British/South African. In the painting, Abraham ben Samuel Zacuto is shown presenting his astronomical tables to da Gama before his departure from Lisbon in 1497. The mural resides in the William Cullen Library at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Date 1936
Source http://usm.maine.edu/ photograph by courtesy of the Archives of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Author John Henry Amshewitz

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Horizontal resolution 72 dpi
Vertical resolution 72 dpi
Software used Adobe Photoshop CS5.1 Windows
File change date and time 00:40, 30 April 2012
Exif version 2.21
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Date and time of digitizing 17:39, 29 April 2012
Date metadata was last modified 17:40, 29 April 2012
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