MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
08984
Record number:
08984-90
JCB call number:
F707 N111v
Image title:
[Death of Atahualpa]
Place image published:
[Leiden]
Image publisher:
[Pieter van der Aa]
Image date:
1706
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 12, [part 1], following p. 12
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
18.3 cm.
Page dimension height:
17 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Atabalipa [Atahualpa], who is chained to his chair, is garroted or executed in a room with Spanish soldiers and enslaved Black people. Includes spears, gun or musket, headdress, pole and rope used to strangle the Inca king, and scene of warfare. He is also shown pleading for his life with a group of soldiers. Also shown is the pole and rope used to strangle the Inca king, as well as his hat or crown of office.
Source Title:
Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1524 tot 1526
Source place of publication:
In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher:
Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date:
1707
notes:
The Spanish were uneasy about an uprising by natives as long as Atahualpa remained alive. In 1533, on a trumped-up charge of conspiracy, the Inca king was found guilty and sentenced to death by strangulation. The execution was performed by Black slaves under orders from the Spanish. This image is derived from Theodor de Bry, America, part 6, plate 11. This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Seer aanmerkelijke scheeps-togten, gedaan door Franciscus Pizarrus, en Didacus Almagrus, van Panama na Peru ... , Leiden, 1706.This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1849.
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:
Incas
Subject headings:
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
Subject headings:
Atahualpa, d. 1533

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