Didacus strafft die auffrührische Indianer. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Didacus strafft die auffrührische Indianer.
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cumana; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A large number of Indigenous people have been lured onto a Spanish ship by Diego d’Ocampo and his soldiers, in retaliation for an uprising against Spanish colonization in Venezuela. At least three Indigenous people have been hung from the mast of the ship. Several have escaped the ship by jumping overboard and swimming for shore, and some have reached the shore where they then flee the ship. The ship’s cannon is used to fire at those escaping. Two dwellings are visible near the shore.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Johann Feyerabend (Printer); Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23705
Language: ger
Source Name: Das vierdte Buch Von den neuwen Welt. oder Neuwe und gründtliche Historien, von dem Nidergängischen Indien, so von Christophoro Colombo im Jar 1492 erstlich erfunden
Parent Collection: 1594 Feyerabend; 1594 Feyerabend
Image: mta_23705_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Hanging; Executions and executioners; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Cannons