La Civdad de Trvcillo · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad de Trvcillo
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Trujillo; South America; West Indies
Description: This image is depicted in the author’s chapter where he discusses cities, towns, villages, and provinces in colonial South America. This image depicts the city of Trujillo in Peru. The city is arranged in a cluster of buildings which forms a square in the centre. There appear to be two soldiers who are sword-fighting in the square and two other people walking. There is a person riding a horse along a path approaching the city walls with what appears to be a dog following them. The caption at the bottom of the image reads ciudad [city].
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23840
Language: spa
Source Name: El primer nueva corónica y buen gobierno [The First New Chronicle and Good Government]
Parent Collection: Latin American Chronicles
Image: mta_23840_OBJ.jpg