Don Garcia de Mendoza Marques de Canete Senor de las Uillas de Argete el Setimo Bizorrey · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Don Garcia de Mendoza Marques de Canete Senor de las Uillas de Argete el Setimo Bizorrey
Subject: Viceroys; Government; Colonialism; Conquest; Don García Hurtado de Mendoza
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Lima; West Indies; South America; Peru
Description: This image depicts a standing portrait of Don García Hurtado de Mendoza, the seventh Spanish viceroy of Peru. He is illustrated wearing traditional European/Castilian clothing and is holding an embroidered bag in his right hand. There is a caption written by Mendoza’s feet that identifies the location as it reads, “en lima” [in Lima]. The caption written at the bottom of the image reads, “don garcia hurtado de mendoza, marques de canete, e[ste] enpeso a gouernar desde el ano de mill quinientos y n[oven]ta hasta junio de mill quinientos y nouenta y says en ti[enpo] del rrey felipo el segundo” [Don García Hurtado de Mendoza, Marquis of Cañete, he began to govern from the year 1590 until June of 1590 in the time of King Philip II].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:22963
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles; Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_22963_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Viceroys; Government; Colonialism; Conquest; Don García Hurtado de Mendoza

Media: mta_22963_OBJ.jpg