Map of Spanish Holdings in the Caribbean

  • Titles Map of Spanish Holdings in the Caribbean (Descriptive)
  • Credit Line Louise Whitaker, 1999.173
  • Work Type map
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Mary, Joseph, three Shepherds and two angels surround a crib covered with a white cloth on which rests the newsborn Jesus. Behind, on the left, a monumental stone colums that belongs to building. In the far distance, on a hillside, shepherds with their flock by a tent. Above, the sky opens and an angel descends through the clouds in a ray of light.
Seven figures are gathered around a table in a small, vaulted room that is open in the back with a vista onto a cityscape. A woman, Mary, sits in the middle behind the table. A man in a red robe is sitting in the left foreground. Jesus is in the lower left with his proper right hand gesturing towards multiple jugs before him with a blessing gesture. The image is colored with yellow, green, red, and brown. The sheet is cut down almost to the edge of the image.
A figure stands at the center facing forward. Figures flank him on either side. A crowd of other figures drawn in outline populate the sides of the composition.
Blondhaar, Karl Almesberger, gelatin silver print