"an old portrait of hernando de soto (ca. 1500-1542). Engraving from retratos de los españoles illustres con un epítome de sus vidas, madrid, imprenta real, 1791. " caption, translated from spanish: "hernando de soto: extremaduran, one of the discoverers and conquerors of peru: he travelled across all of la florida and defeated its still invincible natives; he died in his expedition in the year 1543 in his 42nd year of age". Date: 1791.
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