Franciscus Pizarrus läßt den König Atabaliba wider verheissene trew und glauben auffhencken. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Franciscus Pizarrus läßt den König Atabaliba wider verheissene trew und glauben auffhencken.
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. This image is identical to one found on page 11 (131) of Frankfurt, 1596.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23849
Language: ger
Source Name: Das sechste Theil der neuwen Welt. oder Der Historien Hieron. Benzo von Meylandt, Das Dritte Buch. Darinnen warhafftig erzehlet wird, wie die Spanier die Goldreiche Landschafften deß Peruanischen Königreichs eyngenommen, den König Atabalibam gefangen und getödtet. Auch wie sie, entlich sich selbst untereinander auffgerieben haben.
Parent Collection: 1597 Frankfurt
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