MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01808
Record number:
01808-3
JCB call number:
B601 H564h 1-SIZE vol. 3 (copy 1)
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
Madrid
Image publisher:
en la emplenta Real
Image date:
1601
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
25.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
28.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
u.l.: [illegible]
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Title page with four portrait medaillons--Hernán Cortés, Ferdinand Magellan, Christoval de Olid, Gonzalo de Sandoval--and ten vignettes showing on the left scenes from the Spanish conquest of Mexico, including scenes of warfare or execution and Mexican or Aztec kings being carried on litters, and views of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán. On the right are scenes of the Strait of Magellan, the murder of Magellan, and the triumphant homecoming to Seville, as well as a scene showing the partition of the world on a bridge over a river. Includes native Americans fighting and boating, canoes, ships, cannons, gallows, dwellings, and navigational instruments such as dividers, globes, and compass. In the center is the Spanish royal coat of arms (of Castile and Leon).
Source creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Source Title:
Historia general de los hechos de los Castellano en las Islas y tierra firme del mar oceano ... Decada terzera
Source place of publication:
Madrid
Source publisher:
en la emplenta Real
Source date:
1601
notes:
In 1494, Spain and Portugal signed a treaty, known as the Treaty of Tordesillas, agreeing to a demarcation line whereby the pope divided the lands of the new world between the two countries. Only when the Spanish discovered the riches of Mexico was the treaty seen to be so advantageous to Spain.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1845.
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 Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina)

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