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Ataliba receiving the last embraces of his family: conquest of Mexico – Historic Print

Ataliba receiving the last embraces of his family: conquest of Mexico, [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph
Ataliba receiving the last embraces of his family: conquest of Mexico, [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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The print names the Inca ruler by the spelling "Ataliba," better known today as Atahualpa, shown in his final farewell with his family. In 1532 the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro captured him at Cajamarca, and in 1533 Atahualpa was executed after a sham trial. The subtitle refers to the "conquest of Mexico," but the scene concerns the conquest of Peru, a reminder of how loosely Currier & Ives sometimes grouped their Spanish-America subjects. Issued by Nathaniel Currier between 1835 and 1856, the hand-colored lithograph reflects the mid-19th-century taste for dramatic historical episodes.

Created / published[New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856]
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand col.
GenreLithographs Hand colored 1830-1860.
NotesCurrier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0318.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,044 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175319

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