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[L'Armée passe le fleuve de Cosaciqui], [published 1731] — antique engraving
[L'Armée passe le fleuve de Cosaciqui], [published 1731]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

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This engraving shows Hernando de Soto's army crossing a river the text calls the Cosaciqui, one of the many waterways the expedition had to cross while pushing through the interior of the southeastern North America in 1539 to 1543. It illustrates the 1731 French edition of *Histoire de la conquête de la Floride*, a work first written in Spanish by the Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, the son of a Spanish captain and an Inca noblewoman. Garcilaso based his 1605 account on the recollections of soldiers who survived the journey. The plate, placed opposite page 261 of the first volume, reflects how 18th-century European readers pictured these expeditions: as orderly military columns moving through unfamiliar land.

Created / published[published 1731]
Medium1 print : engraving.
GenreBook illustrations 1730-1740.Engravings 1730-1740.
NotesIllus. in: Histoire de la conquete de la Floride / par Ferdinand de Soto. Composée en Espagnol par L'Inca Garcillasso de la Vega. Tome premier. Aleide : Pierre Vander, 1731, oppos. p. 261.
SubjectsSoto, Hernando de,--ca. 1500-1542--Journeys--Florida. Discovery & exploration--Florida--1530-1540.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,276 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181130

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