Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Hernan Cortès. Ex pictura Titiani in Aedibus. Praedhonbdis: Domini D. Pauli Methuen.

Accession number: 
07639
Record number: 
07639-2
JCB call number: 
B724 S687h / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
Hernan Cortès. Ex pictura Titiani in Aedibus. Praedhonbdis: Domini D. Pauli Methuen.
Creator 1: 
George Vertue
Creator 1 dates: 
1683-1756
Creator 1 role: 
Sculpsit
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
[T. Woodward ... J. Hooker ... J. Peele]
Image date: 
1724
Image function: 
frontispiece
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
26.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
14.7 cm.
Page dimension height: 
34.5 cm.
Page dimension width: 
21.9 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
Portrait of Hernán Cortés.
Source creator: 
Solís, Antonio de, 1610-1686
Source Title: 
[Historia de la conquista de Mexico. English] ... Done into English ... By Thomas Townsend Esq;
Source place of publication: 
London
Source publisher: 
Printed for T. Woodward at the Half-Moon, and J. Hooker at the Flower-de-Luce, both against St. Dunstan's Church, in Fleet-Street; and J. Peele at Locke's-Head in Pater-Noster-Row.
Source date: 
M.DCC.XXIV [1724]
notes: 
This engraving was taken from the painting by Tiziano Vecellio, known as Titian. Paul Methuen (1672-1757) was a politician, courtier, diplomat, and patron of art and literature.
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1870.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area: 
Portraits
Subject headings: 
CortΘs, Hernßn, 1485-1547--Portraits