Carta de relacio[n] e[m]biada a Su. S. Majestad del e[m]p[er]ador n[uest]ro señor
A 1522 Spanish printed letter by conquistador Hernán Cortés reporting to Emperor Charles V, printed in Seville by German printer Jacobo Cromberger for a royal readership. The single woodcut shows a crowned, robed ruler seated on a low throne-like bench in a tiled, arched hall with a patterned tapestry behind and a red manuscript annotation in the margin; a designer could draw on its dense hatched line work, Gothic arch framing and tiled floor pattern.
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