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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0683
Record number:
0683-10
JCB call number:
B598 C334n
Image title:
[Spanish amputate natives' limbs]
Place image published:
[Frankfurt]
Image publisher:
[Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii]
Image date:
[1598]
Image function:
illustration; p. 95
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
10.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
13.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
15.1 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Spaniards cut off noses, hands, and gauge out eyes of native Americans. In the background, Spaniards force natives down a steep hill.
Source creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566
Source Title:
[Brevissima relacion. Latin] Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima
Source place of publication:
Francofurti [Frankfurt]
Source publisher:
sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis.
Source date:
Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
Time Period:
1492-1600
Subject matter:
Spanish conquest, torture
References exhibitions:
Johnson, J. G. Book in the Americas, Fig. 9
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians, Treatment of
Subject headings:
Spain--Colonies--America
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