Cuzco, totius regni Peruani vrbs opulentissima, ab Hispanis occupatur. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Cuzco, totius regni Peruani vrbs opulentissima, ab Hispanis occupatur.
Subject: Indigenous peoples- Peru; Incas; Spaniards; Colonists; Cuzco (Peru) - History; Firearms; Spears; Swords; Murders
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cuzco; Peru; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: After the execution of the Inca Emperor Atahualpa, the Spaniards embarked on the long voyage to Cuzco in search of the gold Pizarro had been told was kept there. Within the walls of Cuzco, Spanish soldiers kill unarmed Inca men and women with pikes or spear, swords, and muskets. Some of the Inca people flee the Spaniards.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Theodor de Bry (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23824
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
Image: mta_23824_OBJ.png