Exploring the Early Americas

The Jay I. Kislak Collection

About This Object

After the death of Moctezuma, Cortés and his forces leave Tenochtitlán.  The Mexica spot them and fiercely attack the Spanish and their allies.
* Currently on Exhibit
Second half of the seventeenth century Mexico. Oil on canvas. Jay I. Kislak Collection, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (94)