La Civdad I Avdiencia de Qvito · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: La Civdad I Avdiencia de Qvito
Subject: Cities; Towns; Villages; Indigenous Peoples; Spaniards; Conquest; Colonialism; Colonization
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Ecuador; Quito; 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 Quito, Ecuador. The city is depicted as a cluster of buildings that form a square in the centre. There are two fountains illustrated in the centre of that square with soldiers walking around them and one person on a horse. There are two soldiers outside of the city walls and three dogs. The author explains that the city of Quito had a royal audience, and that the bishopric of Quito was founded by conquistador Francisco Pizarro. He also explained that bad Christians who had little charity lived in the city of Quito. 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:23813
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_23813_OBJ.jpg