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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05741
Record number:
05741-6
JCB call number:
B770 C828h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
[Aztec Tribute List]
Creator 1:
[Manuel de Villavicencio]
Place image published:
[Mexico]
Image publisher:
[Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal]
Image date:
[1770]
Image function:
plate 24; after p. 175
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
21 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
14. cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
26.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
19 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Nahuatl, Spanish
Description:
Pictographs representing kinds of tribute paid to the Aztecs including feathers of different colors, alabaster columns, strings of fine stones, packages of cacao, birds, gourd cups, pots for heating water, hides of the "tiger," and yerba or herb.
Source creator:
Cortés, Hernán, 1485-1547
Source Title:
[Cartas. Carta 2a-4a] Historia de la Nueva-España, ... aumentada con otros documentos, y notas, por el ilustrissimo señor don Francisco Antonio Lorenzana, ...
Source place of publication:
En Mexico
Source publisher:
en la imprenta del Superior Gobierno, del Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal en la Calle de Tiburcio.
Source date:
1770
notes:
One of the 31 facsimile plates illustrating a Mexican codex included in Francisco Antonio de Lorenzana's Historia de la Nueva-España (Mexico, 1770). The Historia brought together historical documents relating to the civil and religious history of Mexico.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References exhibitions:
Johnson, J. G. Book in the Americas, Item 26, fig. 41.
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico
Subject headings:
Manuscripts, Mexican--Facsimiles
Subject headings:
Lorenzana, Francisco Antonio, 1722-1804
Subject headings:
Picture writing, Mexican
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