Media Information
 
 
 
Collection:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
28015
Record number:
28015-1
JCB call number:
J674 M234v / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Dwarf wearing a hat]
Place image published:
[Kiel]
Image publisher:
[Joachim Reuman]
Image date:
[1674]
Image function:
illustration; p. [14]
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
8 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
29.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
16.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Man wears a hat which comes down to his knees.
Source creator:
Major, Johann Daniel, 1634-1693
Source Title:
JDMBMD Vorstellung etlicher Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern, in America und Asia
Source place of publication:
Kiel
Source publisher:
gedruckt durch Joachim Reuman, Acad. Buchdr.
Source date:
[1674]
notes:
Text discusses a carving on the palace wall of Montezuma [Moctezuma]. It was said to represent a dwarf wearing a hat, but the person was so small that the hat came all the way down to his hips. The court of Moctezuma included deformed people.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities; Indigenous peoples
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject headings:
Abnormalities, Human; Aztecs--Antiquities
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1937.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Image ID:
6240006
Resolution Size:
7
Format:
SID
Media Type:
Image
File Name:
06247006.sid
Width:
4250
Height:
6689

[Dwarf wearing a hat]
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