MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
1387
Record number:
1387-6
JCB call number:
BA579 V136r
Image title:
[Mexicans saved and fallen]
Place image published:
[Perugia]
Image publisher:
[Pietro Giacopo Petrucci]
Image date:
[1579]
Image function:
plate; following p. 220
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
19 cm.
Page dimension height:
23.1 cm
Page dimension width:
17 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
At top, native Americans (wearing tilmas or indigenous clothes) are suspended from two trees while a devil tries to pull one down with a chain. Each tree has a representation of a crucified man [Christ?] on it. At bottom, native Americans kill martyrs with bows and arrows, stones, knives, and spears.
Source creator:
Valades, Diego, fl. 1580
Source Title:
Rhetorica christiana ad concionandi, et orandi usum accommodata ...
Source place of publication:
Perusiae [Perugia]
Source publisher:
Apud Petrumiccobum Potrutium
Source date:
1579
notes:
This book, a manual of instructions for missionaries to Mexico that described indigenous religious rites and customs, was the first book by a Mexican to be published in Europe. The author gives a firsthand account of the evangelization of Mexico. Image placed horizontally on page. Diego Valades, fl. 1580, is probably the image creator.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1906.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico

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