Seditionem Indorum punit Didacus. · Centre for Early Modern Visual Culture

Title: Seditionem Indorum punit Didacus.
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Hanging; Executions and executioners; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Cannons
Period: 1550-1600;
Geographic: Cumana; Venezuela; South America; Frankfurt (Germany); Germany; Free Imperial City of Frankfurt; Holy Roman Empire
Description: A large number of Indigenous people have been lured onto a Spanish ship by Diego d’Ocampo and his soldiers, in retaliation for an uprising against Spanish colonization in Venezuela. At least three Indigenous people have been hung from the mast of the ship. Several have escaped the ship by jumping overboard and swimming for shore, and some have reached the shore where they then flee the ship. The ship’s cannon is used to fire at those escaping. Two dwellings are visible near the shore. This image is identical to one found on page 181 of Frankfurt, 1594, but colored.
Image Creator: Theodor de Bry (Engraver); Johann Feyerabend (Printer)
Type: StillImage; Copperplate engraving
Identifier: mta:23728
Language: lat
Source Name: Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & Admiranda Historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo Anno M. CCCCXCII
Parent Collection: 1594 Latin; 1594 Latin
Image: mta_23728_OBJ.png
Collection: European Illustrations of Native Americans
Subject: Indigenous peoples – Venezuela; Indigenous peoples – Treatment of; Hanging; Executions and executioners; Colonists; Spaniards; Sailing ships; Cannons

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