Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Allegorical representation of the Spanish monarchy]
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Accession number:
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5542
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Record number:
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5542-1
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JCB call number:
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B730 P426h / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Allegorical representation of the Spanish monarchy]
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Place image published:
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[Lima]
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Image publisher:
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[Francisco Sobrino]
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Image date:
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[1730]
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Image function:
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frontispiece
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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26.1 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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17.3 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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28.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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20 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Latin
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Description:
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The Spanish monarchy represented as a woman on a throne whose hand rests on a portrait of a Bourbon Spanish Austrian prince who wears the order of the golden fleece. The steps to her throne read Strength, Constancy, and Religion. Beneath her throne are chained Moorish soldiers. At her feet are weapons which include the Arab crescent. A classical figure wearing a laurel wreath kneels on a hemisphere showing South America with Lima marked on the west coast. Three angels are seated holding symbols of truth and with appropriate latin mottoes above their heads. Symbolic elements include mirror, a lit candle, open book, chains with hearts, crown, scepter, castles and lions (symbols of Castile and Leon or the Spanish crown).
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Source creator:
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Peralta Barnuevo, Pedro de, 1663-1743
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Source Title:
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Historia de España vindicada
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Source place of publication:
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Lima
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Source publisher:
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En la Officina de Francisco Sobrino
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Source date:
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MDCCXXX [1730]
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notes:
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Engraving attributed to Juan de Gazitúa. In this book Peralta details the history of Spain from Greco-Roman times to ca. 600 AD.
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Time Period:
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1701-1750
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Visual categories:
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Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1909.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Commentary:
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Emblems
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