Bahamas Gallery

Elbow Reef Lighthouse, the last kerosene burning manned lighthouse in the world, Hope Town

Elbow Reef Lighthouse, the last kerosene burning manned lighthouse in the world, Hope Town, Elbow Cay, Abaco Islands, Bahamas, West Indies, Central America

© Jane Sweeney

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Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Engraving. Colored

Christopher Columbus (1451-1506). Explorer and navigator genoese. Columbus taking possession of the island of San Salvador. Engraving by Martin Rico after a painting of Isidro Gil. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1890. Colored

© Thaliastock / Mary Evans

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A Wall, Nassau, 1898 (w/c and graphite on paper)

3928786 A Wall, Nassau, 1898 (w/c and graphite on paper) by Homer, Winslow (1836-1910); 37.8 x 54.3 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: watercoluor and graphite on off-white wove paper
In 1884 Homer was commissioned by Century Magazine to illustrate an article called "A Midwinter Resort" about Nassau, port city of the Bahamas. He made many further winter visits to tropical locations and watercolour became his preferred medium while travelling.); American, out of copyright

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