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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
15335
Record number:
15335-2
JCB call number:
J522 N543z [F]
Image title:
[View of Tenochtitlán]
Place image published:
[Augsburg?]
Image date:
[1522?]
Image function:
illustration; leaf [iv]
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
10.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
12.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.2 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
View of fortified city surrounded by water with men standing before its bridges. Built environment includes dwellings, fortifications, boats, and outlying settlements.
Source Title:
Newe Zeittung. Von dem Lande. Das die Sponier funden haben ym 1521. iare genant Jucatan ...
Source place of publication:
[Augsburg?]
Source date:
[1522?]
notes:
This is the first published view of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, as it was supposed to have looked before its destruction by Hernán Cortés and its rebuilding as Mexico City. The artist has interpreted written accounts of the "city in a lake" with its causeways linking the city and surrounding land, giving it a distinctly medieval European appearance.
Time Period:
1492-1600
References:
Wagner, H.R. "Three accounts of the expedition of Fernando Cortes, printed in Germany," Hispanic American Historical Review, May 1929; John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1929, p. 8-9
References exhibitions:
Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Fig. 14
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1929.
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 Area:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject headings:
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540
Subject headings:
Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel

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