La Civdad de Gvaiaqvil · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad de Gvaiaqvil
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Guayaquil; Ecuador; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is depicted in the author’s chapter where he discusses cities, towns, villages, and provinces in colonial South America. This image depicts the city of Guayaquil in Ecuador. It is arranged as a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre. There are two soldiers riding horses in the square and another soldier walking with a spear in his hand. There are two winding pathways that lead into the city, there is one soldier holding a spear and shield on the path on the left side and there are two people on the path on the right. The author explains that the city had good horsemen, soldiers, and Christians who were known to be charitable. The caption at the bottom of the image reads “ciudad” [city].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23866
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_23866_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization