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Ferdinand Cortes and Hernando de Soto in the camp of the Inca at Caxamalca. The order of his court and the reverence with which his subjects approached his person, astonished the Spaniards / drawing by C. Colin. – Historic Reproduction

Ferdinand Cortes and Hernando de Soto in the camp of the Inca at Caxamalca. The order of his court and the reverence with which his subjects approached his person, astonished the Spaniards / drawing by C. Colin., [1902?] — historic drawing
Ferdinand Cortes and Hernando de Soto in the camp of the Inca at Caxamalca. The order of his court and the reverence with which his subjects approached his person, astonished the Spaniards / drawing by C. Colin., [1902?]. Historic drawing 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of Ferdinand Cortes and Hernando de Soto in the camp of the Inca at Caxamalca. The order of his court and the reverence with which his subjects approached his person, astonished the Spaniards / drawing by C. Colin.. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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A halftone reproduction of a drawing by C. Colin places two Spanish conquerors, Hernando de Soto and Hernán Cortés, in the Inca camp at Cajamarca. It was printed in a 1902 book on the conquests of Peru and Mexico, and its caption stresses the order of the Inca court and the reverence shown to the ruler by his subjects. The meeting itself is imagined: Cortés conquered Mexico, not Peru, and the real encounter at Cajamarca in November 1532 was between Francisco Pizarro's small force and Atahualpa. The picture shows how popular histories of the period often merged the two conquests into a single dramatic story.

Created / published[1902?]
Medium1 photomechanical print : halftone.
GenreBook illustrations 1900-1910.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900-1910.
NotesIllus. in: The Discovery and conquest of the new world. Conquest of Peru / Mexico and by W.W. Robertson. Cincinnati, O[hio]: W.H. Ferguson Company, c1902, p. 645.
SubjectsCortés, Hernán,--1485-1547--Journeys--Peru--Cajamarca. Soto, Hernando de,--ca. 1500-1542--Journeys--Peru--Cajamarca. Discovery & exploration--Peru--Cajamarca--1530-1540. Incas--1520-1540.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,263 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181150

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