COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
3844
Record number:
3844-1
JCB call number:
BA634 C363m
Image title:
Terra nostra dedit fructum suum
Place image published:
[Mexico]
Image publisher:
[Diego Gutierrez]
Image date:
[1634]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
11.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
8.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
14.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Two Aztec or native American kings or rulers flank a cactus upon which rests a coat of arms showing a castle. On top of the cactus is an eagle holding a snake in its mouth. Also includes spears, river or lake, and an island.
Source creator:
Catholic Church
Source Title:
Manual mexicano, de la administracion de los santos sacramentos, conforme al Manual Toledano ...
Source place of publication:
En Mexico
Source publisher:
por Diego Gutierrez
Source date:
1634
notes:
The Aztecs, guided by the prophecies of Huitzilopochtli (the god of the sun and war), ended their migration by building Tenochtitlán, on an island in a lake where an eagle held a snake perched on a flowering nopal cactus. The coat of arms is that of Mexico City. The men flanking the symbols of Mexico wear the headdresses and dress of the Aztec kings or rulers.
Time Period:
1601-1650
Visual categories:
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1907.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Emblems--Mexico
Terra nostra dedit fructum suum
