"The reception of Don Vasca de Gama by the Samoryn," by Philip Baldaeus, 1672; reprinted in Churchill's 'A Collection of Voyages and Travels', London, 1744

Source: ebay, Dec. 2010

Vasco da Gama meets the Zamorin of Calicut in 1498, in an engraving from *PREVOST*, 1752; click on the image for a very large scan

Source: ebay, July 2008

Another version of the same scene, in a copperplate engraving from Moore's 'Voyages and Travels', 1778; click on the image for a very large scan

Source: ebay, Jan. 2007

"From: 'A New and Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels...not only the Voyages and Travels of the Natives of these Kingdoms, but also of those of France, Russia, Spain, Portugal...with the Relations of Magellan, Drake, Cavandish, Anson, Dampier, and all the Circumnavigators...including Byron, Wallis, Carteret, Furneaux, Cook, Parkinson, Foster, etc. together with a Accurate description of New Holland, Zealand, O-Taheitee, Tanna, the Society, Friendly, and Other Newly Discovered Isles, and Their Inhabitants, likewise the Voyage of Mr. de Bougainville to the South Seas...also Lord Mulgrave's Expedition, for the Discovery of a Passage towards the North Pole, and a succinct Narrative of the North Pole, and a succinct Narrative of the Voyages...by John Hamilton Moore',  Pub. London: Hogg, 1778. First Edition."




A Portuguese view, from a book published in Lisbon in 1839

Source: ebay, Jan. 2013

An engraving from an English history book, 1851

Source: ebay, Apr. 2007

A steel engraving from the 1850's, with  modern hand coloring

Source: ebay, Feb. 2007


A rendering of the scene by the Portuguese painter Velos Salgado, published in the magazine 'Das Buch fur Alles', 1904

Source: ebay, July 2011

On the reverse side of this commemorative medal by F. Fonseca is the window of the Chapter House of the nave of the Convent of the Order of Christ church in Tomar, Portugal (c.1510)

Source: ebay, June 2007

His arrival, and then his audience with the Zamorin, in medals commemorating 500 years of the "Lusiad," the Portuguese national epic poem

Source: ebay, July 2007

Another Portuguese medal depicting the meeting, from 2003; *the reverse of the medal*

Source: ebay, June 2007

A medal illustrating the scene as depicted in the "Lusiad"; *the reverse of the medal*

Source: ebay, June 2007

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