Atahualpa – Last Inca Emperor of Peru – Baroque Engraving c.1700

Name: Atahualpa – Last Inca Emperor of Peru – Baroque Engraving c.1700
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14073-5
Price: 625 USD
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Date: 1700
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 40 × 23 cm (15.7 × 9.1 in)
Condition: Good. Very good given age. Slight toning to edges, faint marginal crease at upper left corner, and minor handling marks typical for prints of this age. Strong impression with excellent detail.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14073-5

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Atahualpa, the last Inca ruler, an original copper engraving in the Baroque manner dated about 1700. The portrait is lettered "Athabalipa ultimus Rex Peruanorum," meaning "Atahualpa, the last king of the Peruvians."

He is shown in an oval frame, half-length, in a feather headdress with a fringed band, a pearled collar and a chain hanging from his neck, one hand gripping a staff and the other resting on a chain, which refers to his capture by Francisco Pizarro at Cajamarca in 1532. Behind him a classical palace stands in a sunlit landscape. Around the oval is an elaborate frame of trophies: a quiver of arrows and spears, shackles, hammers and a great feathered fan, with a fierce animal's mask at the top and a scroll cartouche carrying the name at the foot.

Atahualpa was taken by Pizarro, and after a ransom of gold and silver was gathered he was put to death in 1533. Portraits such as this one belonged to European books of famous rulers and show an imagined appearance, in the style of a Baroque collection of the monarchs of the world, rather than an Inca likeness.

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