Franciscus Pizarrus, contra fidem datam, Atabalibæ gulam laqueo frangi iubet. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Franciscus Pizarrus, contra fidem datam, Atabalibæ gulam laqueo frangi iubet.
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Incas; Incas – Kings and rulers; Executions and executioners; Spaniards; Colonists; Slaves; Ransom
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cajamarca; Peru; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: Inca Emperor Atahualpa (Atabalipa) is executed at Cajamarca, despite the ransom of gold and silver having been paid. Atahualpa is seated in a chair with his ankles chained together, inside a large open room. A group of enslaved Black people are forced by the Spanish to carry out his execution. Several men hold down Atahualpa’s limbs while two behind him strangle him to death with a rope tied to a wooden pole. Groups of Spanish soldiers armed with pikes and muskets mill around the room while the execution takes place.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23823
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars sexta. Sive Historiæ ab Hieronymo Be[n]zono Mediolane[n]se scriptæ, sectio tertia, res no[n] minus nobiles & admiratione plenas continens, quàm præcedentes duæ. In hacenim reperies, qua ratione Hispani opule[n]tisimas illas Peruani regni provincias occuparint, capto Rege Atabaliba: deinde orta inter ipsos Hispanos in eo regno civilia bella
Parent Collection: 1596 Bry
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