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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 03814
Record number
JCB call number BA666 S245l
Image title [Catafalque of Philip IV]
Place image published [Mexico]
Image publisher [Widow of Bernardo Calderon]
Image date [1666]
Image function fold-out plate; following leaf 41
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 38.9 cm.
Image dimension width 26.7 cm.
Page dimension height 43.9 cm.
Page dimension width 28.8 cm.
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Description Catafalque erected in the cathedral of Mexico City to commemorate the death of Philip IV of Spain. Includes the funerary structure in the interior of a church. Also includes figures representing the king, angels holding candles or tapers, allegorical figures holding the sun, an orb, and baton. At the base of the catafalque are scenes from Philip IV's life including the appearances of the Virgin Mary on a crescent moon, a battle scene, a scene with a skeleton, and a representation of the pillars of Hercules flanked by a queen and king. The plinth rests on a platform made of eagles and cactus.
Source creator Sariñana y Cuenca, Isidro
Source Title Llanto del Occidente en el ocaso del mas claro sol de las Españas y noticia breve de la deseada ultima dedicacion del Templo Metropolitano de Mexico ...
Source place of publication En Mexico
Source publisher Por la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon
Source date 1666
notes A catafalque, an elaborate funerary structure, was erected in the cathedral of Mexico City on the death of Philip IV. The statue of Philip IV is shown with four statues of King Solomon, as a symbol of the perfect monarch. In the lower part of the catafalque royal insignia appear surrounded by statues of great rulers (Constantine, Charlemagne, Alexander), god and heroes of Antiquity (Theseus, Jason, Prometheus, Janus), and four female figures representing Spain. The catafalque is crowned with an image of Faith, who carries a cross in one hand and a chalice and host in the other. This engraving is one of the earliest American copperplate prints known.
Time Period
Visual categories Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
References Cañeque, A. The king's living image, p. 130
Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings Catafalques
Subject headings Funeral rites and ceremonies--Mexico
Subject headings Emblems--Mexico

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 92-61
Record number
JCB call number BA669 S246c
Image title ... Doctoris D. Augustini Sarmiento de los Salbadores [sic]
Place image published [Lima]
Image publisher [Joseph de Contreras]
Image date [1669]
Image function fold-out frontispiece
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 20.6 cm.
Image dimension width 15 cm.
Page dimension height 24.4 cm.
Page dimension width 16.8 cm.
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Languages Latin, Spanish
Description Portrait of Augustin Sarmiento de los Salvadores in an interior room or his study. Includes table or desk with books, quill, inkwell, royal coat of arms, statue of the Virgin Mary with crown, window with trellis and grape vine.
Source creator Sarmiento de los Salvadores, Agustin
Source Title Clarin de la aurora y excelencias de la purissima reyna de los angeles Maria santissima señora nuestra ...
Source place of publication En Lima
Source publisher Por Joseph de Contreras
Source date 1669
notes Agustin Sarmiento de los Salvadores was the priest or rector of the church of San Sebastian in Lima, Peru, and visitor general of New Spain. The coat of arms is probably the author's coat of arms; the Sarmiento coat of arms includes "bezantes de oro" (bezants or gold circles). The vines in the window may symbolize a sarment (twig of a vine).
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1992.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Portraits
Subject headings Sarmiento de los Salvadores, Agustin--Portraits

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 01631
Record number
JCB call number F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title Uiztlipuztli idolum Mexicanorum.
Place image published [Amsterdam]
Image publisher [Jacob Meurs]
Image date [1671]
Image function plate; following p. 220
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 27.6 cm.
Image dimension width 34.3 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height 31.6 cm.
Page dimension width 37.1 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Languages Latin
Description Native American worship before Huitzilopochtli, a Mexican idol or statue, in the interior of a temple. The idol, shown as a devil with wings, a face on his stomach, and cloven hooves, stands on an altar decorated with military matériel such as spears, shields, and feathered headdresses. In one hand he holds a pole, in the other a shield with five feathers on it. Also includes animal headdresses and men worshipping before the idol.
Source creator Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication t'Amsterdam
Source publisher By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date 1671
notes Huitzilopochtli or Huitziláihuitl, an Aztec god symbolized by the hummingbird, was the god of the sun and war. Text describes the statue as being seated on a litter painted blue with serpents' heads at the end of the poles. The statue held a serpent in one hand and a shield with five feathers on it in the other. Its head was crowned with feathers.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area Indigenous peoples
Subject headings Indians of Mexico--Religion

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 04869
Record number
JCB call number BA672 V181v
Image title Christo desponsa.
Creator 1 Cornelis Galle
Creator 1 dates
Place image published [Brussels?]
Image date [1672?]
Image function plate; leaf [10]
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 9 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 6.6 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 20.9 cm.
Page dimension width 16.8 cm.
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Languages Latin
Description Rose of Lima kneels before a statue of the Virgin Mary and Child. The Virgin is surrounded by a rosary and stands upon a crescent moon.
Source creator Valle, Juan de, ?
Source Title Vita et historia S. Rosae a S. Maria quae nata Limae in regno Peruano 1586, obiit 1617 aetatis suae 31.
Source place of publication [Brussels?]
Source date [1672?]
notes Rose of Lima, patron saint of the Americas and first American-born saint, joined the secular order of the Dominicans.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings Rose, of Lima, Saint,

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 15081
Record number
JCB call number Ba693 R763l
Image title La idolatria de los Indios de Naçion Aruacos, que habita en las Sierras de S. Martha; destruida, por un Religiosso Del Orden de S. Augustin de la Prouincia de Lima el ano de [16]91 ...
Place image published [Milan]
Image publisher [Marcos Antonio Pandulso Malatesta]
Image date [1693]
Image function fold-out plate; following p. 20
Technique woodcut, hand coloring
Image dimension height 30.4 cm.
Image dimension width 21.7 cm.
Page dimension height 34 cm.
Page dimension width 23.2 cm.
Materials medium ink, colors
Materials support paper
Languages Spanish
Description Two native Americans worship in a temple before an altar with religious objects. Holding war clubs and trumpets, they offer European military equipment such as a drum and armor.
Source creator Romero, Francisco, b. 1659?
Source Title Llanto sagrado de la America Meridional ...
Source place of publication En Milan
Source publisher por Marcos Antonio Pandulso Malatesta
Source date 1693
notes This book relates the visit of the Augustinian missionary to the Sierra Nevada de Santa Martha in Colombia in 1691 and the subsequent destruction of many native American temples and idols.
Time Period
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
Commentary <a a comment</a>
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area Indigenous peoples
Subject headings Indians of South America--Rites and ceremonies

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number
Record number
JCB call number J678 K58m / 2-SIZE
Image title [Mira historia de imagine B. Virginis in Regno Chilense visa.]
Place image published [Amsterdam]
Image publisher [Johan Jansson van Waesberge & sons]
Image date [1678]
Image function illustration; vol. 2, p. 47
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 16.6 cm.
Image dimension width 15.8 cm.
Page dimension height 37.5 cm.
Page dimension width 24.3 cm
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Description Image of the Virgin Mary and Christ child found in a grotto or cave in Chile.
Source creator Kircher, Athanasius,
Source Title [Mundus subterraneous] Athanasii Kircheri e Soc. Jesu Mundus subterraneous, in XII libros digestus ... Tomus II
Source place of publication Amstelodami [Amsterdam]
Source publisher Apud Joannem Janssonium à Waesberge & filios
Source date MDCLXXVIII [1678]
notes Kircher, a Jesuit polymath, in this chapter on stones describes the miraculous discovery of a statue found in a hidden cliff or grotto in Chile. He attributes the story of the statue's discovery to Alfonso d'Ovalle. (Cf ).Image title taken from chapter title.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1970.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Chile

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 08984
Record number
JCB call number F707 N111v
Image title [Scene of native American warfare]
Place image published [Leiden]
Image publisher [Pieter van der Aa]
Image date 1706
Image function fold-out plate; vol. 12, [part 1], following p. 58
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 13.3 cm.
Image dimension width 18.2 cm.
Page dimension height 17 cm.
Page dimension width 21.5 cm.
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Description Native Americans fight each other on a field of battle. On one side is a statue of an idol or deity and on the other are skeletons on poles. Also includes shields, bows, arrows, war clubs, and dwellings.
Source Title Naaukeurige versameling der gedenk-waardigste zee en land-reysen na Oost en West-Indiën ... zedert het jaar 1524 tot 1526
Source place of publication In het ligt gegeven te Leyden [Leiden]
Source publisher Door Pieter Vander Aa, boekverkoper in de St. Pieters Koor-steeg, in Plato.
Source date 1707
notes Text discusses warfare of the Indians in South America.This image follows the special title page for Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Seer aanmerkelijke scheeps-togten, gedaan door Franciscus Pizarrus, en Didacus Almagrus, van Panama na Peru ... , Leiden, 1706.This collection of voyages consists of 127 parts, each having a special title page, separate pagination, and register. The voyages covering the period from 1246 to 1696 are arranged chronologically.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1849.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area Indigenous peoples
Subject headings Indians of South America--Warfare

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 0875
Record number
JCB call number B646 O96hS / 1-SIZE
Image title Vera efigies alterius, quae in rupis cavitate in modum capellae concameratae, non ab opifice aliquo delineata ...
Place image published [Rome]
Image publisher [Por Francisco Cavallo]
Image date [1646]
Image function plate; following p. 392
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 18.3 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 13.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 25.4 cm.
Page dimension width 17.3 cm.
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Languages Latin
Description Virgin Mary with her child, Jesus, stands in a grotto or cave. Two native Americans [Araucanians] worship her.
Source creator Ovalle, Alonso de,
Source Title [Historica relacion de reyno de Chile] Historica relacion del reyno de Chile, y delas missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesus
Source place of publication En Roma [Rome]
Source publisher Por Francisco Cavallo
Source date M. DC. XLVI. [1646]
notes This image is said to be a true copy of an effigy which was miraculously found in a cliff in Chile.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1846.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
geographic area Spanish America
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area Indigenous peoples
Subject headings Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Chile

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Image1
Field Data
Accession number 01594
Record number
JCB call number E665 R674h
Image title [Du Manyoc]
Place image published [Rotterdam]
Image publisher [Chez Arnout Leers]
Image date [1665]
Image function illustration; p. 105
Technique engraving
Image dimension height 9.7 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width 13.4 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height 22.6 cm.
Page dimension width 16.5 cm.
Materials medium ink
Materials support paper
Description Black [slave] grates manioc beside a manioc or cassava plant.
Source creator Rochefort, Charles de,
Source Title Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l'Amerique
Source place of publication A Roterdam [Rotterdam]
Source publisher Chez Arnout Leers
Source date M.DC. LXV [1665]
notes Image title taken from chapter sub-heading.
Time Period
Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1847.
Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I
Commentary <a a comment</a>
geographic area Caribbean Islands
Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area Flora and fauna
Subject headings Cassava