Enbarcaronse A Las Indias · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Enbarcaronse A Las Indias
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Rio de la Plata; Peru; Cusco; Cuzco; South America; West Indies; Spain; Europe
Description: This chapter focuses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts a Spanish ship setting sail towards the West Indies with the intentions of conquering the New World and becoming rich with the abundances of gold and silver.. There are six figures identified on the ship. The figure standing at the bow of the ship is identified as golum [Columbus]. The figure sitting on a lookout point on the mast is identified as juan dias de solis, piloto [Juan Dias de Solis, pilot]. The next four figures are labelled as Almagro, Pizarro, Uasco Nunes de Ualboa, and Martin Fernandes Ynseso. The caption at the bottom of the image reads la mar de sur, setecientas leguas al río de la plata [the South Sea, seven hundred leagues to Rio de la Plata].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:20882
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
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Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Subject: Conquest; Colonialism; Spaniards; Conquistadors; Christopher Columbus; New World; Exploitation; Inca Empire; Inca; Indigenous; Indigenous Peoples

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