This paper explores the representation of political powers in the front-page illustrations of Early Modern Spanish newspapers. The knowledge about Early Modern European journalism has undergone a remarkable development in recent decades: however, research on the form of the first newspapers is scarce. The paper presents a corpus of 162 news pamphlets and gazettes published in Seville between 1618 and 1635. An analysis follows considering the presence of engravings on the cover page and their classification. This insight leads to the conclusion that the image did not play a decisive role to draw the attention of readers, even in sensationalist news pamphlets. The illustration is used not to present the events narrated but to stress the genre of the print; about half of the corpus prints have a cover engraving that reproduces a coat of arms, associated with the monarchical power in two thirds of the news sheets: Spanish journalism experienced a growing officialization, prior to the appearance of the first official newspaper of the kingdom, Gazeta Nueva (1661). Also, a small group of news sheets with ecclesiastical or nobiliary coat of arms reveals the interest of local powers in the flourishing of the journalistic market

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早期现代西班牙新闻业的头版插图和政治权力

本文探讨了早期现代西班牙报纸头版插图中政治权力的表现。近几十年来，关于早期现代欧洲新闻学的知识经历了显着的发展：然而，对第一批报纸形式的研究却很少。该论文介绍了 1618 年至 1635 年间在塞维利亚出版的 162 份新闻小册子和公报的语料库。考虑到封面上雕刻的存在及其分类，随后进行了分析。这种洞察力得出的结论是，即使在耸人听闻的新闻小册子中，图像也没有起到吸引读者注意力的决定性作用。插图不是用来呈现叙述的事件，而是强调印刷品的体裁；大约一半的语料库印刷品有一个封面雕刻，再现了徽章，与三分之二的新闻报道中的君主权力有关：在王国的第一份官方报纸 Gazeta Nueva（1661 年）出现之前，西班牙新闻业经历了越来越多的官方化。此外，一小部分带有教会或贵族纹章的新闻报道揭示了地方权力对新闻市场繁荣的兴趣