COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06827
Record number:
06827-3
JCB call number:
B733 S687i
Image title:
Ferdinando Cortes cavato da un originale fatti in azich'ei si portassi alla conquista del Messico
Creator 1:
Suor Isabella Piccini
Creator 1 dates:
1644-1734
Creator 1 role:
scopì
Place image published:
[Venice]
Image publisher:
[Andrea Poletti]
Image date:
[1733]
Image function:
plate; following p. 28
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
14 cm.
Page dimension height:
23.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
17 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Italian
Description:
Portrait of Hernán Cortés holding a baton. Decorative border includes head of a native American wearing a feathered headdress, animals such as a dragon, eagle [?], lion, and leopard.
Source creator:
Solís, Antonio de, 1610-1686
Source Title:
[Historia de la conquista de México. Italian] Istoria della conquista del Messico ...
Source place of publication:
In Venezia [Venice]
Source publisher:
Per Andrea Poletti
Source date:
MCDDXXXIII [1733]
notes:
The engraver was the mother superior of the convent of Santa Croce, Venice.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
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