COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Accession number:
12472
Record number:
12472-1
JCB call number:
BA754 V455v
Image title:
Retrato del V. P. Juan Bautista Zappa de la Compañia de Jeusus, que traxo de Italia la Santa Imagen de Na. Sra. de Loreto â la Ciudad de Mexico.
Creator 1:
Froncoso
Creator 1 role:
Sc.
Place image published:
[Barcelona]
Image publisher:
[Pablo Nadal]
Image date:
[1754]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.3 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Portrait of Giovanni Battista Zappa wearing a birreta and holding a statue of Our Lady of Loreto.
Source creator:
Venegas, Miguel, 1680-1764
Source Title:
Vida y virtudes del V. P. Juan Bautista Zappa de la Compañia de Jesus
Source place of publication:
Barcelona
Source publisher:
Por Pablo Nadal Impressor, en la calle de la Canùda
Source date:
1754
notes:
Zappa, an Italian and Jesuit missionary in Mexico, brought a statue of Our Lady of Loreto, as well as precise measurements of the house at Loreto said to be the house in which the Virgin Mary received the angel Gabriel, from Italy in 1675. He supervised the construction of the Loreto chapel at Tepotzotlán which began in 1678.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Mathes, M. Ilustracion en Mexico colonial, 9A; http://www.jesuit.o… (Feb. 2006)
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Spanish America
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Portraits
Subject headings:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles
Subject headings:
Loreto, Our Lady of
Subject headings:
Jesuits--Mexico
Subject headings:
Zappa, Giovanni Battista, 1651-1694