Crudelitas Petri de Calyce erga Indos. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Crudelitas Petri de Calyce erga Indos.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Píritu; Province of Cumaná; New Andalusia Province; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A group of Indigenous men, women and children have been captured by the Spanish and are forced to march to a new location. Many of the Indigenous men carry large bundles on their backs while the women carry the smallest children. The Indigenous people are surrounded by Spaniards carrying thin swords and muskets. Near the front of the group, an Indigenous man with strands of beads around his neck, wrists and knees converses pleadingly with a Spanish man walking near him. One Spaniard beats an Indigenous man who has fallen near the back of the group. This image is identical to one found on page 155 of Frankfurt, 1594, but colored.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23713
Language: ger
Source Name: Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M. CCCCXCII
Parent Collection: 1594 Latin; 1594 Latin
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Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Colonists; Colonization; Forced migration; Firearms; Violence - Venezuela; Spaniards – Latin America – History

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