La Civdad de Qvenca · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture · Center for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad de Qvenca
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Cuenca; 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 Cuenca in Ecuador. The city is depicted as a cluster of buildings that form a square in the centre. There are two people standing in the square approaching the fountain that is situated in the middle. There is a llama outside the city walls and birds flying above the city. The author explains that this city was founded by the conquistador Francisco Pizarro and that it had many good Christians living in the city. 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:23835
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_23835_OBJ.jpg
Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization