COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
0649
Record number:
0649-7
JCB call number:
B554 C569pb (copy 2)
Image title:
Cuzco
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Jean Bellère]
Image date:
[1554]
Image function:
illustration; recto leaf 229
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
5 cm.
Image dimension width:
6.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
14.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
8.9 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Inca ruler gestures toward a settlement in the background. A bearded man in European dress stands next to him. Includes church and dwellings.
Source creator:
Cieza de León, Pedro de, 1518-1560
Source Title:
[La chronica de Peru. Part 1] Chronica del Peru ...
Source place of publication:
An Anvers [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
Por Juan Bellero ala enseña del Salmon
Source date:
M. D. LIIII. [1554]
notes:
Text here refers to the founding of Cuzco by the Inca. Here an Inca ruler, possibly Manco Capac (adorned with the royal fringe [llautu] or crown), gestures toward Cuzco to Francisco Pizarro.
Time Period:
1492-1600
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1870.
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 headings:
Incas--Kings and rulers
Subject headings:
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
Subject headings:
Peru--Kings and rulers--Mythology
Cuzco
