Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Batalla de Tabasco

Accession number: 
07642
Record number: 
07642-4
JCB call number: 
B798 S687h
Image title: 
Batalla de Tabasco
Creator 1: 
Anto. Rodz.
Creator 1 role: 
lo inv. y dib.
Creator 2: 
J. Garrido
Creator 2 role: 
lo gr.
Place image published: 
[Madrid]
Image publisher: 
[Cano]
Image date: 
1798
Image function: 
plate; vol. 1, following p. 156
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
8.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
12.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
7 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Spanish
Description: 
The battle of Tabasco. Spanish soldiers fight against native American soldiers. Includes horses, shields, swords, and war clubs.
Source creator: 
Solís, Antonio de, 1610-1686
Source Title: 
Historia de la conquista de México, poblacion y progresos de la América septentrional, conocida por el nombre de Nueva España ... tomo I
Source place of publication: 
Madrid
Source publisher: 
Por Cano
Source date: 
1798
notes: 
Cortés conquered Mexico in the years 1519 to 1521 and defeated the Aztec emperor, Moctezuma II (Montezuma II). He first landed in the Yucatan and proceeded to Tabasco where he won a battle against the natives. He received 20 indigenous women from the losers; one of these women was Doña Marina or Malinche who became the mother of his child and was a valuable interpreter - she spoke both Nahuatl and Maya.The artist of the work from which this engraving was made is probably Antonio Rodríguez (1765-1823).
Time Period: 
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
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: 
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1517-1540