COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05837
Record number:
05837-2
JCB call number:
B827 R211
Image title:
Emperors of Peru.
Creator 1:
John Swaine
Creator 1 dates:
1775-1860
Creator 1 role:
engraved by
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green]
Image date:
1827
Image function:
plate; following p. 74
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
19.6 cm. (all)
Image dimension width:
10.6 cm. (all)
Page dimension height:
21.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
13.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Quechua
Description:
Portrait medallions of six rulers of the Incas. Each holds an ax or hatchet and wears a feathered crown. They are Yahuar Huacac, VII; Vira Cocha, VIII; Pacha Cutec, IX; Yupanqui, X; Tupac Yupanqui, XI; and Huayna Capac, XII.
Source creator:
Ranking, John
Source Title:
Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century by the Mongols, ...
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green.
Source date:
M.DCCC.XXVII. [1827]
notes:
The portraits are of the Inca rulers of Peru. In order of reign they are Yahuar Huacac, Inca Viracocha, Pachacuti Inca, Yupanqui, Topa Inca Yupanqui, and Huayna Capac.Cf. Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, London, 1726 (#07324d-1) and Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Madrid, 1615 (#10772-3).
Time Period:
1801-1850
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Incas
Subject headings:
Kings and rulers--Portraits
Emperors of Peru.
