Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [View of Cuzco with royal carriage]

Accession number: 
04056
Record number: 
04056-12
JCB call number: 
J621 P565 / 1-SIZE (copy 2)
Image title: 
[View of Cuzco with royal carriage]
Place image published: 
[Linz]
Image date: 
[1621]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 70
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
17.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
28.8 cm.
Page dimension height: 
31.3 cm.
Page dimension width: 
19.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
Spanish priests and soldiers take the Inca ruler [Atahualpa] and his retinue in a carriage drawn by llamas to the settlement of Cuzco in background. The ruler carries a symbol of the sun. Also includes horses, cross or crucifix, gun or muskets, war clubs, feathered headdresses and garments, flag, litter carried by horses, and fortifications.
Source creator: 
Philoponus, Honorius
Source Title: 
Nova typis transacta navigatio ...
Source place of publication: 
Linz
Source date: 
1621
notes: 
This image shows the capture of Atahualpa or Atabalipa by Francisco Pizarro at Cajamarca, Peru. Atahualpa, in a desperate attempt to buy his freedom, offered Pizarro a room of gold. The ransom was in vain; Pizarro had the Inca king executed as soon as the ransom was collected. Wolfgang Kilian (1581-1662), an Augsburg printmaker, is presumed to be the artist for all the images in this book not obviously derived from the Petits Voyages and Grands Voyages of Theodor de Bry. Honorius Philoponus is a pseudonym, probably for Caspar Plautius to whom this book is dedicated. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period: 
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1900.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Incas
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America