Portrait of John Cabot. Born c. 1450 in Genoa, Italy. Died c. 1498/1501. Wood engraving, c. 1880. Good condition. Short margins. Verso: English text. Mounted onto a slightly later album leaf. Note: dimensions reflect the entire leaf, excluding the mount. Dimensions: 80 x 114 mm. John Cabot was Explorer, Navigator, "Giovanni Caboto", He led the earliest known European exploration of coastal North America since the Norse visits to Vinland in the eleventh century, and Maritime explorer.