Iacobus Almagrus à Ferdinando Pizarro in vincula coniicitur, in carcere strangulatur, postremo publice capite plectitur. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Iacobus Almagrus à Ferdinando Pizarro in vincula coniicitur, in carcere strangulatur, postremo publice capite plectitur.
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Spaniards; Colonists; Executions and executioners; Imprisonment; Public executions
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cuzco; Peru; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: This storied image shows the imprisonment and execution of Diego de Almagro in Cuzco, at the hands of Spaniards loyal to Francisco Pizarro. In the foreground, Diego de Almagro is seized by three Spanish soldiers. He is escorted towards a building used as a prison on the right. Inside the prison, de Almagro is strangled using a rope tied to a wooden pole while three Spanish soldiers watch. His body is then carried to the left into the public square, where he is tied to a post and beheaded with a hatchet in front of an audience. Three Inca men watch the proceedings from the background.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Theodor de Bry (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23827
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiæ ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptæ, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ. In hacenim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tisimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: deinde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella.
Parent Collection: 1596 Bry; 1596 Bry
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Spaniards; Colonists; Executions and executioners; Imprisonment; Public executions

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