Den spiegel der Spaensche tierannije, geschiet in Westindien : waerin te sien is de onmenschelijke wreede feÿten der Spanjaerden met samen de beschrijvinge der selver lant en volcken aert en nature allen vaderlant lieuende en vrome voorsta[n]ders ten exempel voor gestelt

Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566, Plasse, Cornelis Lodewijksz vander, -1641, printer, Jay I. Kislak Collection (Library of Congress) · 1620 · Gedruckt tot Amsterdam : By Cornelis Lodewijcks vander Plasse ..., anno 1620. · 24 pictures

This is a 1620 Dutch printed edition of Bartolomé de las Casas's account of Spanish cruelty in the West Indies, printed in Amsterdam by Cornelis Lodewijcksz vander Plasse for a Dutch Protestant readership. Its engravings show Spanish conquerors committing atrocities against Indigenous people, each captioned with verse, and they offer a designer dense crowd compositions, armour and weapon detail, and stark scenes of violence in woodcut-style line work.

Amsterdam · Netherlands

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