Portrait of Vasco Nunez de Balboa. Born c. 1475 in Jerez de los Caballeros, Spain. Died 1519 in Acla, Panama. Wood engraving by Alfred �Albert� Bobbett (1824-1888), after Edwin Austin Abbey (1852-1911), c. 1880. Good condition. Short margins. Verso: English text and part of another image. Mounted onto a slightly later album leaf. Dimensions: 104 x 105 mm. Vasco Nunez de Balboa was Explorer, Governor, Conquistador, Maritime explorer, The first European to lead an expedition to have seen or reached the Pacific from the New World, and Founded the first permanent European settlement on the mainland of the Americas.