Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Spanish Gratitude. Cortes orders Motezuma [sic] to be Fetter'd.

Accession number: 
34917
Record number: 
34917-5
JCB call number: 
D741 A512t
Image title: 
Spanish Gratitude. Cortes orders Motezuma [sic] to be Fetter'd.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[J. Fuller]
Image date: 
[1741]
Image function: 
plate; following p. 360
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
15.4 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
9.2 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
16.8 cm.
Page dimension width: 
10.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
Hernán Cortés, dressed in armor and holding a baton, directs another European to bind the hands of Montezuma (or Moctezuma) dressed in feathered headdress and garments.
Source Title: 
The American traveller; being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages, ... containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time. ...
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed-Lane
Source date: 
M.DCC.XLI. [1741]
notes: 
Cortés probably arrested Montezuma (or Moctezuma) in order to prevent an Aztec uprising and perhaps in response to the deaths of several Spaniards at Almeria.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
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 Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
Subject headings: 
Montezuma II, Emperor of Mexico, ca. 1480-1520
Subject headings: 
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540