COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04362
Record number:
04362-25
JCB call number:
JA675 T167s / 1-SIZE
Image title:
P. Bernardus Reus Hispanus Soc: Iesu, evulso corde telis Confixus ab Idololatris in Peru. 17 Iulij. A. 1629
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. 487
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.6 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 is martyred by having his heart cut out by a native American with a knife clenched in his mouth. Also includes arrows.
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:
Bernardo Reus, a Spanish Jesuit, was martyred in Peru in 1629.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 Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Christian martyrs--Peru
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Peru
Subject headings:
Jesuits--Peru
P. Bernardus Reus Hispanus Soc: Iesu, evulso corde telis Confixus ab Idololatris in Peru. ...
