COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
29976
Record number:
29976-11
JCB call number:
J688 H252t / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Athabaliba ultimus Rex Peruanorum
Place image published:
[Hamburg]
Image publisher:
[Thomas von Wiering]
Image date:
[1688]
Image function:
illustration; p. 107 (first count)
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
21.9 cm.
Image dimension width:
16.6 cm.
Page dimension height:
33.7 cm.
Page dimension width:
20. 7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Latin
Description:
Portrait of Atahualpa or Atabalipa, the last Inca ruler. Includes feathered headdress, arrow, eagle, and ornaments [gorget].
Source creator:
Happel, Eberhard Werner, 1647-1690
Source Title:
Thesaurus exoticorum. Oder eine mit aussländischen Raritäten und Geschichten wohlversehene Schatz-Kammer fürstellend die asiatische, africanische und americanische Nationes ...
Source place of publication:
Hamburg
Source publisher:
Gedruckt und Verlegt durch Thomas von Wiering Buchdrucker und Formschneider; sind auch zu bekommen in Franckfurth bey Zacharias Herteln
Source date:
1688
notes:
A prolific writer (mostly of novels), Happel here describes a variety of exotic peoples at the border of Europe. His principal focus is on Islamic peoples, but he does include indigenous peoples of the Americas.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1947.
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:
Atahualpa, d. 1533
Subject headings:
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548
Subject headings:
Indians of South America--Peru
Subject headings:
Incas--Kings and rulers
Athabaliba ultimus Rex Peruanorum
