MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
8984
Record number:
08984-45
JCB call number:
F706 A111n
Image title:
[Mexicans present gifts to Europeans]
Place image published:
[Leiden]
Image publisher:
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date:
[1707]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 8, [part 2], following p. 110
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
17.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
21.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans present gifts of coins, clothes, toads or frogs, vessels, and jewels to a European man sitting on a throne in a stone dwelling. Also includes pots of incense [?], sun disks, feathered headdresses, and spears.
Source Title:
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1492 tot 1499
Source place of publication:
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date:
1707
notes:
Associating the arrival of Cortés in 1519 with the prophecy of the white-skinned god Quetzalcoatl returning from the east to reclaim his authority over the Aztecs, Moctezuma initially saw Cortés arrival as the fulfillment of the prophecy and welcomed the Spanish with lavish gifts.This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, De roem-waardige zee- en land-togten door den vermaarden Ferdinandes Cortes ... gedaan na Nieuw-Spanje en Mexico, Leiden, 1706.This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1849.
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:
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico--First contact with Europeans

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