COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0840
Record number:
0840-010
JCB call number:
B553 C569p /1-SIZE
Image title:
Cerro de Potosi
Place image published:
[Seville]
Image publisher:
[Martin de Montesdoca]
Image date:
1553
Image function:
illustration; verso of leaf cxxii
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
11 cm.
Image dimension width:
15 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
18.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Town and mountain of Potosí. Includes a view of the churches, dwellings, and town square (with decapitated head on a pike) of the settlement. Also includes river and paths up the mountain along with an indication of the different veins of silver.
Source creator:
Cieza de León, Pedro de, 1518-1554
Source Title:
[La chronica de Peru. Part 1] Parte Primera dela chronica del Peru
Source place of publication:
Seville
Source publisher:
[En casa de Martin de Montesdoca]
Source date:
1553
notes:
The mines at Potosí in Peru were discovered by Diego Hualca in 1544. The silver mines there were among the richest in the world.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Mines and mineral resources--Peru
Cerro de Potosi
