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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0683
Record number:
0683-15
JCB call number:
B598 C334n
Image title:
[Spaniards feed children to dogs]
Creator 1:
Iod. a W
Creator 1 role:
in
Place image published:
[Frankfurt am Main]
Image publisher:
[Theodor de Bry & Johann Sauer]
Image date:
[1598]
Image function:
illustration; p. 59
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Spaniards feed children to dogs while a native American woman and her child hang in a doorway. A priest baptizes the child. Includes a dwelling and packs of dogs running after men in the distance.
Source creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566
Source Title:
[Brevissima relacion. Latin] Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima
Source place of publication:
Francofurti [Frankfurt am Main]
Source publisher:
sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis.
Source date:
Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
notes:
Text describes how one native woman tied her child to her foot before hanging herself, hoping that the Spaniards would spare her child. They allowed a dog to tear the child to pieces, but not before a Franciscan friar baptized the child. One of the first to vilify the Spanish as cruel exploiters of the Indians, Bartolomé de las Casas, the bishop of Chiapas, vehemently condemned maltreatment of the Indians. His writings enforced an enduring set of of ideas known as the Black Legend and sanctioned Protestant retaliation against Catholic countries, especially Spain. Artist is probably Joos or Jodocus van Winghe (1544-1603), a Netherlandish painter active in Germany.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians, Treatment of

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