COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
98-47
Record number:
98-47-6
JCB call number:
J770 D578n
Image title:
Motezuma
Place image published:
[Nuremberg]
Image publisher:
[Widow of Christoph Riegel]
Image date:
[1770]
Image function:
plate; p. 807
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
13.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
11 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Portrait of Moctezuma (Montezuma), a native American or Aztec ruler of Mexico, holding a sceptre. Cultural artifacts include ornaments and a crown.
Source creator:
Dillinger, Georg Adam
Source Title:
Nach dem jezigen Staat eingerichtete Bilder-Geographie, darinnen von den vier Haupttheilen des Erdbodens Europa, Asia, Afrika und Amerika Nachricht gegeben
Source place of publication:
Nürnberg [Nuremberg]
Source publisher:
Zu finden bey Christoph Riegels seel. Wittib
Source date:
1770
notes:
This is probably Moctezuma II (reigned 1502-1520), the ninth Aztec emperor, whose surname was Xocoyotzin or bitter lord (or the youngest), was the son of Axayácatl and great grandson of Moctezuma I. He surrendered to the Spanish in 1520. The plates for this work were largely based on Neu-eroffnetes Amphi-Theatrum ..., Erfurt, 1723.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1998.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Aztecs--Kings and rulers
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico
Motezuma
