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Athabaliba, ultimus rex Peruanorum – Vintage Wall Art

Athabaliba, ultimus rex Peruanorum, [1902?] — antique engraving
Athabaliba, ultimus rex Peruanorum, [1902?]. Antique engraving from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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This engraving shows Atahualpa, whose Latin caption calls him the last king of the Peruvians. It is not a firsthand portrait. It was copied from an engraving in Arnoldus Montanus's Dutch work on the New World (1671), and it appeared as an illustration on page 658 of W.W. Robertson's 1902 history of the discovery and conquest of the Americas. Atahualpa was the Inca ruler whom Francisco Pizarro seized at Cajamarca in 1532, and the Spanish executed him the following year after he had been held for a ransom of gold.

Created / published[1902?]
Medium1 print : engraving, with text.
SubjectsIllus. in: The Discovery and conquest of the new world. Conquest of Mexico and Peru / by W.W. Robertson. Cincinnati, O[hio] : W.H. Ferguson Company, c1902, p. 658. From the engraving in Montanuś nieuwe en onbekende weereld." Reference copy in Biog File -- Atahualpa
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,280 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181147

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