Francisco Pizarro, 1470?-1541 – Vintage Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Francisco Pizarro, 1470?-1541 comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Francisco Pizarro, 1470?-1541
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Few figures of the Spanish conquest of the Americas loom as large as Francisco Pizarro, who in 1532 seized the Inca ruler Atahualpa at Cajamarca with a small force. This etching by Max Rosenthal, made around 1902, portrays him as a figure of the conquest era and was issued under the copyright of Lea Brothers & Co. Pizarro later founded Lima as the Spanish capital of Peru, and he was assassinated there in 1541 during a violent dispute among the conquerors. The print's date places it long after these events, so it reflects how early twentieth-century American publishers chose to remember him.
| Created / published | c1902. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : etching. |
| Notes | Etching by Max Rosenthal, copyrighted by Lea Brothers & Co. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,018 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160859 |
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