Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Scene of torture]
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Accession number:
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0683
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Record number:
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0683-11
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JCB call number:
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B598 C334n
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Image title:
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[Scene of torture]
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Creator 1:
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Iodo a Wigne
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Creator 1 role:
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in
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Place image published:
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[Frankfurt am Main]
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Image publisher:
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[Theodor de Bry & Johann Sauer]
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Image date:
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[1598]
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Image function:
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illustration; p. 12
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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10.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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20.3 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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15.1 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Spaniards torture native Americans by roasting them over a fire and by chopping off their hands, tying the same hands around their necks, and letting them go. Includes bellows, hatchet or ax, and wooden grill.
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Source creator:
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Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566
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Source Title:
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[Brevissima relacion. Latin] Narratio regionum indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima
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Source place of publication:
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Francofurti [Frankfurt am Main]
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Source publisher:
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sumptibus Theodori de Bry, & Ioannis Saurii typis.
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Source date:
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Anno M.D.XCVIII [1598]
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notes:
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Text discusses how the Spanish would torture some native nobles over a slow-burning fire. They would torture others by chopping off their hands and tying the hands around their necks, sending them to take the news back to others in the mountains. One of the first to vilify the Spanish as cruel exploiters of the Indians, Bartolomé de las Casas, the bishop of Chiapas, vehemently condemned maltreatment of the Indians. His writings enforced an enduring set of of ideas known as the Black Legend and sanctioned Protestant retaliation against Catholic countries, especially Spain. Artist is probably Joos or Jodocus van Winghe (1544-1603), a Netherlandish painter active in Germany.
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Time Period:
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1492-1600
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1846.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Indians, Treatment of
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