Christopher Columbus financed his voyage to the New World with the financial support of Ferdinand and Isabella. In this image, Columbus is shown appealing to Isabella I of Castile and her husband, King Ferdinand of Aragon, for funding.
Columbus appeals to Queen Isabella to fund his voyage, in an unidentified 1910s film still
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