A group of French traders stand in a small boat near the coast while one of their group stands on the shore speaking with a group of Tupinambá men. The French appear to be trading for monkey, parrots, and possibly brazilwood, and they have a large bird cage on their boat. There is a Tupinambá village nearby and a group of people stand near the shore, some holding bows and arrows. A European man, captive of the Tupinambá, swims out to the French boat but is prevented from boarding so swims back to shore.
Tom Stubble holds up a new sword at the accoutrement-maker’s, lunging at the much taller William Dobbin, who parries with his bamboo walking-stick. Both men are smiling. In the background a store employee can be seen, along with a man trying on a tall guard’s hat. Below the illustration is printed in cursive its title, Ensign Stubble practising the art of War.
An Indigenous town is shown. The town is surrounded by large logs stuck into the ground, forming a large fence with one entrance. At both the exterior and interior of the gap there is a tall hut. Inside the fence, many round structures sit in a cluster. At the center of the cluster is a larger rectangular building.
This chapter focuses on discussing the arrival of Spaniards and the Spanish conquest of Peru. This image depicts a Spanish ship setting sail towards the West Indies with the intentions of conquering the New World and becoming rich with the abundances of gold and silver.. There are six figures identified on the ship. The figure standing at the bow of the ship is identified as golum [Columbus]. The figure sitting on a lookout point on the mast is identified as juan dias de solis, piloto [Juan Dias de Solis, pilot]. The next four figures are labelled as Almagro, Pizarro, Uasco Nunes de Ualboa, and Martin Fernandes Ynseso. The caption at the bottom of the image reads la mar de sur, setecientas leguas al río de la plata [the South Sea, seven hundred leagues to Rio de la Plata].
This illumination depicts Hecuba, the queen of Troy and wife of king Priam of Troy, in the centre of the image. Boccaccio explains that he wrote on Hecuba to highlight her terrible misfortunes. She had watched many of her children die, including the hero Hector, and watched her husband be disemboweled. Along with watching her loved ones violently die, she watched her entire city fall to the ground. Many believe she had become a slave to the Greeks once the city was taken. She is illustrated watching her loved ones die in this illustration. The city of Troy is burning in the background on the left side.
This illumination depicts Cloelia, a young Roman woman, riding a horse through a deep river with many women looking at her from behind a wall. Boccaccio explains that Cloelia was given to a foreign king as a hostage, and when she escaped, she took many other hostages with her to get back to Rome. The other women in the image are still captive as they are behind a wall and reaching out towards Cloelia for help. While escaping, she came across a river that was too treacherous to pass. She found a horse, and despite never having ridden one, she got herself and the other women across safely by means of this horse.
The Incas raised an army to fight the Spanish who occupied Cuzco after the execution of Atahualpa, but they were not successful in retaking the city. Here, the Spanish and the Incan army engage in battle outside the walls of Cuzco. The Incas, massed to the left, fight with bows, spears and shields. The Spaniards, some of whom ride horseback, are armed with muskets, spears and swords, and wear armor. Several Inca men have fallen to the ground as their army is pushed back by the Spanish. This image is identical to one found on page 13 (135) of Frankfurt, 1596.
This engraving depicts a young servant girl getting stabbed in the chest with a sword by a man standing above her. This young servant girl is disguised to look exactly like Harmonia, the daughter of Gelon (brother to the king of Syracuse). Boccaccio explains that there was a rebellion in Syracuse against nobility, and before the murderers could get to Harmonia, her nurse disguised this young woman to look like Harmonia. The real Harmonia is depicted on the left side of the engraving. There is a man swinging a sword above his head which appears to be heading in Harmonia’s direction, however, Boccaccio explains that Harmonia hid from the murderers until they killed the look-alike servant.
A Tupinambá village is shown, comprised of four long structures arranged in a circle and surrounded by a fence. Inside the village a group of women dance in a circle around a bearded man wearing a feathered headdress. Several of the women carry small children in slings on their backs. Several long poles with skulls mounted on the ends have been planted in the ground around the fence.
Three women are seated around a dinner table. Two women are wearing crowns, and the other is wearing a headdress. There are large cups and a bird resembling dinner on the plate in the centre. A fourth woman is standing, presumably serving the seated women.
After being banished from his own kingdom, King Metabus of the Volscians fled into exile. Metabus is illustrated in the foreground of the image kneeling on the ground with his hands together in prayer. He is looking up at a statue which is standing on a tall platform. The statue is in the shape of the goddess Diana. Metabus is asking Diana for her help to save his young child, Camilla, from the river which flows behind him. The background of the image depicts Metabus throwing his child, Camilla, across the river after wrapping her in tree bark and tying her to his lance. With the help and protection of Diana, Camilla makes it safely across the river while tied to the lance. Metabus ends up swimming across the river after Camilla is thrown, to which he finds out that the made it safely across.
In a field, there is a lion and a horse. On the lower left corner, the lion is lying on the ground with dead eyes. The horse is standing on its two front legs and kicking the horse in the face with its hind legs. Behind them are tall fruit trees.
A pair of young children stand by the seaside. The girl is wearing a bonnet and has her fingers gripped behind her back, while the boy is holding onto the string of a kite. The kite is shaped like a cone with a rounded top, and flies next to the letter I.
Dido (also called Elissa), the founder and queen of Carthage, is illustrated within the city walls in the centre of the image stabbing herself with a knife. After her husband, Acerbas, had been killed by her brother, she fled to Africa and founded Carthage and vowed to remain chaste in honour of her husband. When a foreign king asked for Dido’s hand in marriage and threatened to sack the city if she denied, she stabbed herself to protect her chastity. The city of Carthage is in the background of the image. There are three citizens standing beside Queen Dido.
A Man is sitting on a stump in the forest and is holding onto the maine of a Lion, the lion stares at the man and it has large claws. There are two birds of unknown type perched above the man, looking at eachother. in the background there is a dead tree to the right and live trees to the left. The image is bordered by a vine design
Mr. Pitt Crawley introduces Miss Briggs, his aunt’s companion, to Lady Jane Sheepshanks, his betrothed, with a smug look on his face. Miss Briggs, on her way home from the library, is holding one of her books and has dropped two others. Mr. Pitt is clasping her free hand in both of his, while Lady Jane is half hidden behind him, looking shy.
A Sow had just farrowed, and lay in the sty, with her whole litter of pigs about her. A Wolf, who longed for one of them, but knew not how to come at it, endeavoured to insinuate himself into the Sow's good opinion, and accordingly coming up to her.
There is a group of birds standing on the ground to the left. There is another group of birds standing on the ground to the right. Both groups of birds face each other. An eagle flies above the two groups in the middle of them. The eagle is holding a creature in its claws
The author explains that there were ten paths for men to follow in the Inca Empire based on age division. This seventh group was called tocllacoc uamra [hunter boys]. These boys were aged from nine to twelve years old and their duties included hunting small birds to use their meat and use their feathers to decorate weapons. The caption at the bottom of the image reads de edad de nueue años cirue a su padre y al cacique which translates to nine years old, he serves his father and the chief. The boy in the image is depicted running towards a flock of small birds with a stick in one hand and a dead bird in his other hand.
Here we see a knife used to castrate male horses and make them tamer. Gulliver’s master was shocked that humans would ride horses, so Gulliver explained how horses were trained from a young age, and bred for human use. The same image appears in the 1843 Krabbe edition.
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![[Metabus Throwing His Daughter Camilla Over a River]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/601eb2d29466dad6c2c0aebfd25254f36bde1af9.jpg)
![[The Lion and the Angry Horse]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/72ce3908edc8d488c90d0227dfb9dba991f59686.jpg)
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![[Mr. Pitt Introduces Lady Jane to Miss Briggs]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/ae36006a0b2c793b3769807095e92547a17513b3.jpg)
![[Eagle Flies Over Birds]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/3b576e6fead774c1c89a3956ca1cb2a264585bf1.jpg)
![[a knife used to castrate male horses]](https://collections.cemvc.ca/files/large/783279634602653f9196e83c610edf8fad470111.jpg)