COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09379
Record number:
09379-6
JCB call number:
H719 G322v
Image title:
Quauhtimoc X. Roy
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
[Etienne Ganeau]
Image date:
1719
Image function:
plate; vol. 6, following p. 80
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
7.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
9.3 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Cuauhtémoc (also known as Cuauhtemotzin, Guatimozin or Guatemoc), here identified as the tenth king of the Aztecs, dressed in a mantle or cloak and holding a feather "scepter" and an arrow. Includes facial ornamentation.
Source creator:
Gemelli Careri, Giovanni Francesco, 1651-1725
Source Title:
[Giro du mondo. French] Voyage du tour du monde ... Tome sixieme
Source place of publication:
A Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Etienne Ganeau, Libraire rue S. Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine S. Severin
Source date:
.1719
notes:
Cuauhtémoc [reigned 1520-1521] was the Aztec ruler (tlatoani) of Tenochtitlán from 1520 to 1521. The nephew of Moctezuma II, he was married to one of Moctezuma's daughters. His reign coincided with a devastating epidemic of smallpox.Cf. 08792-4, for A collection of voyages and travels, London, 1704, which includes Gemelli Careri's voyage.An abridged translation, variously attributed to Eustache Le Noble (1643-1711) and to L.F. Dubois de Saint-Gelais.Gemelli Careri was a world traveler who went around the world starting with the Holy Land and ending in Mexico. His five-year journey which began in 1693 ended by taking the silver fleet back to Spain from Cuba.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1970.
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:
Indians of Mexico--Kings and rulers
Subject headings:
Aztecs--Kings and rulers
Quauhtimoc X. Roy
