COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
99-127
Record number:
99-127-1
JCB call number:
BA666 C689c / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Ill.ac R. D. D. F. Christophorus de Torres, ordinis praedicatorum, Philippi III ... Rosarii beatissimae Virginis Mariae ardentissimus Promotor ...
Creator 1:
Pedro de Villafranca
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1615-1684
Creator 1 role:
sculptor Regius facieb.
Place image published:
Matriti [Madrid]
Image publisher:
[Juan Nogués]
Image date:
1664
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
26.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
17 cm.
Page dimension height:
28.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Portrait of Cristóbal de Torres, archbishop of Nueva Granada. Includes angels holding a bishop's miter, cross, royal coats of arms of Spain and Castile. Also includes the Virgin Mary and child with a rosary, eagle, a glove, pectoral cross, and book.
Source creator:
Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario (Bogotá, Colombia)
Source Title:
Constituciones del Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, en la Ciudad de Santa Fè de Bogotâ, hechas, y ajustadas por su insigne fundador, y patrono. El ilustrissimo señor maestro D. Fr. Christoval de Torres...
Source place of publication:
En Madrid
Source publisher:
Por Iuan Noguès
Source date:
[1666]
notes:
Torres, a Dominican priest and archbishop of Bogota, Colombia, was one of the first priests to admit native Americans to communion in 1636 and was the founder of Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1999.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Torres, Cristóbal de, 1573-1654
Subject headings:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Colombia
Ill.ac R. D. D. F. Christophorus de Torres, ordinis praedicatorum, Philippi III ... Rosari...
