Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: El Secreto de la mina de Potosi se descubre à Villarroel, ÿ la cantidad de plata, que se sacava en los primeros tiempos

Accession number: 
07376
Record number: 
07376-39
JCB call number: 
B728 H564h / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
El Secreto de la mina de Potosi se descubre à Villarroel, ÿ la cantidad de plata, que se sacava en los primeros tiempos
Place image published: 
[Antwerp]
Image publisher: 
[Juan Bautista Verdussen]
Image date: 
[1728]
Image function: 
plate; vol. 4, following p. 242
Technique: 
etching
Image dimension height: 
20.2 cm.
Image dimension width: 
16.4 cm.
Page dimension height: 
35.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
21 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
Method by which native Americans mined precious metals from the mountain. Men climb up and down a rope ladder carrying ore from the mines. Other men hold candles or lights and use pickaxes to extract the ore. In the background, men herd llamas and take th
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 quarto
Source place of publication: 
En Amberes [Antwerp]
Source publisher: 
Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, Mercader de Libros
Source date: 
M.D.CC.XXVIII [1728]
notes: 
Text describes the silver mines in Peru. This image was derived from Plate 3, in part 3 of Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9.
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: 
Flora and fauna
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Mines and mineral resources--Peru
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America
Subject headings: 
Silver mines and mining