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Exploring the Early Americas The Jay I. Kislak Collection
“The Capture of Cuahtemoc” (97)

Second half of the seventeenth century Mexico
Oil on canvas
Jay I. Kislak Collection
Rare Book and Special Collections Division (97)

“The Capture of Cuahtemoc” 

After much of Tenochtitlan has been destroyed, Cuauhtémoc, the eleventh and last king of the Aztec empire, flees the city in a canoe and is captured by the Spanish.
 

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