Andes Mountains Gallery

EXPL2A-00030

Missionary Father Valverde addresses the Inca king Atahualpa during the Spanish conquest of Peru, 1532.
Printed color lithograph of a 19th-century illustration

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EVNT2A-00083

Battle of Ayacucho, when Bolivar's forces under General Sucre established Peru's independence from Spain, 1824.
Hand colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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