COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01631
Record number:
01631-17
JCB call number:
F671 M765n / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Nova Mexico.
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Jacob Meurs]
Image date:
[1671]
Image function:
fold-out plate; following p. 232
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
28.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
54.2 cm. [both pages]
Page dimension height:
31.6 cm.
Page dimension width:
55.5 cm. [both pages]
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
Bird's-eye view of Mexico City after the Spanish conquest from the shore of a lake. Built environment includes churches, walls, fountains, and dwellings. Also includes domestic animals, dogs, horses, fields outside of the city walls and black or native American men farming, boating on a canal or river, hauling goods on an ox-drawn cart, and carrying loads on their backs. Items in image are lettered for identification in a key below.
Source creator:
Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683
Source Title:
De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America
Source place of publication:
t'Amsterdam
Source publisher:
By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs
Source date:
1671
notes:
Derived from a view in an unpublished atlas by Johannes Vingboons in 1628, this image was probably copied from a map of Juan Gomez de Trasmonte, supervisor for the construction of the drainage system of Mexico City in 1628. That map may have been brought to the Netherlands by Adrian Boot, the Belgian engineer responsible for designing the project.
Time Period:
1651-1700
References:
Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.23; Lombardo de Ruiz, S. Atlas histórico de la ciudad de México, lamina 125
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1847.
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:
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel
Nova Mexico.
