COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04362
Record number:
04362-15
JCB call number:
JA675 T167s / 1-SIZE
Image title:
P. Antonius Lopez Hispanus Soc: Iesu veneno sublatus ab Indis odio Fidei in Peruvia A. 1596.
Creator 1:
Karel Skréta
Creator 1 dates:
ca. 1610-1674
Creator 1 role:
d[elineavit].
Creator 2:
Melchoir Küsel
Creator 2 dates:
1626-1683
Creator 2 role:
f[ecit].
Place image published:
[Prague]
Image publisher:
[Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae]
Image date:
[1675]
Image function:
illustration; p. 455
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
10.7 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
29.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
17.8 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Priest or monk stands before an altar with a broken idol. He holds a chalice with a phoenix [?] in it and a crucifix.
Source creator:
Tanner, Mathias, 1630-1692
Source Title:
Societas Jesu usque ad sanguinis et vitae profusionem militans in Europea, Africa, Asia, et America
Source place of publication:
Pragae [Prague]
Source publisher:
Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, in Collegio Societatis Jesu ad S. Clementem per Joannem Nicolaum Hampel Factorem
Source date:
M. DC. LXXV. [1675]
notes:
Text discusses the Jesuits who reached Peru in 1567 and proceeded to proselytize among the Indians, destroying native artifacts in their efforts to destroy idolatry.The author, Mathias Tanner from Pilsen, Bohemia, entered the Society of Jesus in 1646, spent most of his life in Prague, and became rector of the Colegio and Imperial University.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1873.
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:
Jesuits--Peru
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