MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
06977
Record number:
06977-2
JCB call number:
F622 S755s
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jan Evertszoon Cloppenburg]
Image date:
[1620]
Image function:
title page
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
18.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Dutch
Description:
Two gentlemen, identified as Don Ian and Duc Dalve, flank title. One man wears plaques which read, Mexico, Peru, Cusco [Cuzco], and Havana. The other wears plaques which contain coats of arms. Each man has at his feet a fox with its prey. Also includes vignettes showing Spanish cruelty--men executed by being beheaded with swords, Europeans running swords through captive native Americans, including a baby. Includes portrait of the king of Spain.
Source creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566
Source Title:
[Brevissima relacion. Dutch] Den spiegel der Spaensche tyrannye, ghescheit in West-Indien
Source place of publication:
Tot Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Ghedruckt by Ian Evertss Cloppenburg, op 't Watertegen over de Koor-Beurs in vergulden Bÿbel
Source date:
1620
notes:
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.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1882.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Conquerors
Subject headings:
Indians, Treatment of

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