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Lottery Commemorating the ‘Discovery’ of Brazil

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Lottery Commemorating the ‘Discovery’ of Brazil

  • Proveniência Santa Casa da Misericórdia
  • Autoria Unknown
  • Data 1986
  • Fonte Ticket purchased at a market
  • Associação

A lottery ticket from the commemorative edition of the ‘discovery’ of Brazil, published and in circulation in 1986, bought at the Vandoma Fair in 2023.


During the 1980s, there were several images in different contexts and formats that still exalted figures or events from the colonial imaginary, even though this was a post-25 April period in which there was supposedly a reflection and abandonment of colonialist and imperialist ideas.