Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Man burned at the stake]
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Accession number:
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06977
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Record number:
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06977-5
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JCB call number:
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F622 S755s
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Image title:
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[Man burned at the stake]
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Place image published:
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[Amsterdam]
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Image publisher:
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[Jan Evertszoon Cloppenburg]
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Image date:
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[1620]
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Image function:
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illustration; p. 19
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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10.5 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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13.1 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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18.5 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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14.5 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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Spanish burn a man at the stake. A member of the clergy or priest holds out a Bible and a crucifix to the man about to be burned or tortured. Spaniards on horseback pursue native Americans in the background. Also includes guns or muskets, swords, and spears.
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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. Dutch] Den spiegel der Spaensche tyrannye, ghescheit in West-Indien
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Source place of publication:
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Tot Amsterdam
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Source publisher:
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Ghedruckt by Ian Evertss Cloppenburg, op 't Watertegen over de Koor-Beurs in vergulden Bÿbel
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Source date:
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1620
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notes:
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Illustrates Spanish atrocities in Cuba and illustrates Casas's telling of the death of Hatuey who, when the priest approached him asking if he wanted to go to heaven, replied that he did not, if that is where the Christians went.This image is derived from author's Narratio regionum ..., Frankfurt a. M., 1598, and is here reversed. 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.
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Time Period:
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1601-1650
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired before 1882.
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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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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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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 of the West Indies
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Subject headings:
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Indians, Treatment of
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