Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Consique el Bto. Aparizio, que la Justizia de libertad a un preso, pagando por el tres mil pesos

Accession number: 
07144
Record number: 
07144-21
JCB call number: 
BA789 X7cb
Image title: 
Consique el Bto. Aparizio, que la Justizia de libertad a un preso, pagando por el tres mil pesos
Place image published: 
[Rome]
Image publisher: 
[Pedro Bombelli]
Image date: 
1789
Image function: 
plate 25
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
19.5 cm.
Image dimension width: 
14.3 cm.
Page dimension height: 
22.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
17.2 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
Sebastián de Aparicio leans out of a carriage to speak with a man leading another who is tied with rope at his wrists. The carriage is followed by black servants [slaves]. In the background is a square with a town government building or courthouse. Also includes people carrying trays of food, clock, and dwellings.
Source creator: 
Ximénez, Mateo
Source Title: 
Coleccion de estampas que representan los principales pasos, hechos y prodigios del Bto. Frai Sebastian de Aparizio religo. Franciscano de la Provincia del Sto. Evangelio de Mexico
Source place of publication: 
Roma [Rome]
Source publisher: 
por el incisor Pedro Bombelli
Source date: 
1789
notes: 
Here Sebastián de Aparicio grants freedom to a prisoner who is being led from a Justice Hall by paying three million pesos.Born in Spain, Sebastián de Aparicio traveled to Mexico where he made a substantial fortune building roads and the carriages or carts to carry goods on the roads. At age 70, he joined the Franciscan order and was known as the Angel of Mexico. He was beatified in 1787.
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1900.
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 headings: 
Aparicio, Sebastián de, 1502-1600
Subject headings: 
Charity