Coreg[id]or de Provincias Deste Rreyno y su Escriuano Primer Historia de Ellos · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Coreg[id]or de Provincias Deste Rreyno y su Escriuano Primer Historia de Ellos
Subject: Corregidor; Magistrates; Government; Scribes; Colonialism; Conquest; Don Diego de Avendano
Period: 1600-1650;
Geographic: Peru; Lima; Cusco; Cuzco; West Indies; South America
Description: This image is illustrated in a chapter that discusses and criticizes the government and society in Spanish conquered Peru. This image depicts a Corregidor [Magistrate]. Each province in Peru was governed by a Corregidor and they were able to govern and make money in their office in whichever way they saw fit. The author heavily criticizes their actions and government. The Corregidor in this image is depicted wearing traditional European clothing with a ruffled collar and matching wrist ruffles and trunk hoses. He is standing in front of his scribe who is sitting at a desk writing with his quill. He appears to be writing the Corregidor’s name, Don Diego de Avendano.
Image Creator: Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala (Illustrator)
Type: Text; Illustration [Manuscript]
Identifier: mta:23291
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_23291_OBJ.jpg