Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Pizarro entertain'd on Shore by a Peruvian lady.

Accession number: 
06-222
Record number: 
06-222-13
JCB call number: 
D760 W927d
Image title: 
Pizarro entertain'd on Shore by a Peruvian lady.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[J. Newbery]
Image date: 
1760
Image function: 
plate; vol. 3, following p. 38
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
9.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
6 cm.
Page dimension height: 
13.2 cm.
Page dimension width: 
7.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Pizarro and his men sit at a table set in an arbor. A native American woman in a throne-like chair is host. Includes plates of food and native Americans blowing horns.
Source Title: 
The world displayed; or, A curious collection of voyages and travels, selected from the writers of all nations. ... vol. III.
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for J. Newbery, at the Bible and Sun, in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Source date: 
1760
notes: 
Looking for gold, Pizarro and his men sailed along the west coast of South America until they came to Payta which they named Santa Cruz. There they landed and were entertained in some splendor by a native American woman.Volume three contains an account of the conquest of Peru and the settlement of Brazil by the Portuguese.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Former collection William Holbech; acquired as a gift from the estate of Frederick Lippitt.
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: 
Indians of South America--Peru
Subject headings: 
Pizarro, Francisco, ca. 1475-1541
Subject headings: 
Peru--History--Conquest, 1522-1548