COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04362
Record number:
04362-32
JCB call number:
JA675 T167s / 1-SIZE
Image title:
P. Petrus Romerus Hispanus et Matthaeus Fernandez Indus Soc: Iesu, crudeliter ab Idololatris in Paraquaria apud Itatines occisi, zz. Martij. A. 1645.
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. 508
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
15.9 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
10.6 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 kneeling in prayer is martyred by being struck with a war club by a native American. Another priest lies on the ground and calls out, "Jesus Maria," while a native holds a knife.
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:
Pedro Romero, Mateo Fernandez, and Justo Vanfurk (superior of the mission at Itatín) attempted to proselytize the area of Chaco Boreal (part of the Grand Chaco) across the Paraguay River from Itatín. Romero and Fernandez founded the mission of Santa Bárbara, but were killed in 1645.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--Bolivia
Subject headings:
Christian martyrs--Paraguay
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Paraguay
Subject headings:
Jesuits--Paraguay
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Brazil
Subject headings:
Jesuits--Bolivia
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