Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Coatlicue]
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Accession number:
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01686
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Record number:
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01686-1
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JCB call number:
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B792 L579d
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Image title:
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[Coatlicue]
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Creator 1:
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Francisco Aguera
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Creator 1 role:
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delineó y gravó
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Place image published:
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[Mexico]
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Image publisher:
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[Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros]
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Image date:
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[1792]
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Image function:
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fold-out plate I
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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25.5 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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34.5 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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30.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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41 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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Spanish
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Description:
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Front, back and side view of a statue of Coatlicue, a Mexican deity. The statue's face is comprised of two fanged serpents, her skirt is of interwoven snakes, her necklace is of hands, hearts, and a skull, and her fingers and toes are claws.
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Source creator:
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León y Gama, Antonio de, 1735-1802
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Source Title:
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Descripcion histórica y cronológica de las dos piedras, que con ocasion del nuevo empedrado que se esta formando en la plaza principal de Mexico
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Source place of publication:
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México
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Source publisher:
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En la imprenta de Don Felipe de Zúñiga y Ontiveros
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Source date:
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M. DCC. XCII. [1792]
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notes:
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During the 1780s and 1790s, major archeological discoveries were unearthed during renovations to the square or Zócalo in Mexico City--the Coatlicue statue and the Aztec calendar stone, or the "piedra del sol" which has become a symbol of Mexico. León y Gama's book was the first scholarly description of that discovery and attempted to explain the meaning of the stones, although he contended that this figure was a composite of the hieroglyphic attributes of at least seven Mesoamerican deities, instead of Coatlicue, an Aztec goddess who symbolized earth as creator and destroyer.
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Time Period:
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1751-1800
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References:
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Royal Academy, London. Aztecs, fig. 9; Cañizares-Esguerra, J. How to write the history of the New World, fig. 5.1, p. 272-280
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Spanish America
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Coatlicue (Aztec deity)
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Subject headings:
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Aztec gods--Mexico
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