COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07376
Record number:
07376-14
JCB call number:
B728 H564h / 2-SIZE
Image title:
El Inga Atahualpa ultimo Rey del Peru.
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Juan Bautista Verdussen]
Image date:
[1728]
Image function:
plate; vol. 3, following p. 4
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
28 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
21 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Portrait of Atahualpa [or Atabalipa] holding an arrow and wearing a feathered headdress. The portrait is surrounded by a decorative frame which includes Atahualpa adorned with jewelry and carrying a scepter or symbol of the sun. He is being carried on a litter by native Americans. Includes scenes of mining by native Americans. Also includes musical instruments such as drum, pipes, and trumpet, swords, scene of warfare, baskets, winches, hoes, shovels, bows, arrows, ships, and boat.
Source creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Source Title:
[Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos] Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales ... Tomo tercero
Source place of publication:
En Amberes [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, Mercader de Libros
Source date:
M.D.CC.XXVIII [1728]
notes:
Atabalipa [Atahualpa] was the last independent Inca ruler in Peru. He was captured by the Spanish and executed in 1533 despite his paying a vast ransom for his life. The decorative frame is derived from the title page of Theodor de Bry's America, Pt. 6.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired circa 1916.
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 Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
El Inga Atahualpa ultimo Rey del Peru.
