Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Relig[io]sa gero[ni]ma Sor Juana Ines de la [Cruz] ...

Accession number: 
32121
Record number: 
32121-1
JCB call number: 
BA700 J91f [R]
Image title: 
Relig[io]sa gero[ni]ma Sor Juana Ines de la [Cruz] ...
Creator 1: 
Joseph Caldevilla
Creator 1 role: 
invenit
Creator 2: 
Clemens Puche
Creator 2 role: 
delineabat
Place image published: 
Matriti [Madrid]
Image publisher: 
[Manuel Ruiz de Murga]
Image date: 
1700
Image function: 
frontispiece
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
17.4 cm.
Image dimension width: 
12.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
19.9 cm.
Page dimension width: 
14 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
Portrait of Juana Inés de la Cruz in a nun's habit holding a book and pen and flanked by allegorical figures, a European in armor and a native American wearing feathered headdress. Includes caduceus, musical instruments such as harp, lute, viola, and horns, royal Spanish coats of arms, angels, globe, dividers, bow, arrows, and books.
Source creator: 
Juana Inés de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695
Source Title: 
Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, decima musa, poetisa Americana, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz ...
Source place of publication: 
Madrid
Source publisher: 
En la Imprenta de Manuel Ruiz de Murga, à la Calle de la habada
Source date: 
1700
notes: 
Known as the lyric poet of colonial Mexico, Juana Inés de la Cruz was a nun, scholar, intellectual prodigy, and writer of polemics and plays, as well as poetry.
Time Period: 
1651-1700
Visual categories: 
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1957.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
Juana InΘs de la Cruz, Sister, 1651-1695