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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
01564
Record number:
01564-5
JCB call number:
D720 G133n
Image title:
[Interior of an Aztec temple]
Creator 1:
A. Aveline
Place image published:
[Amsterdam]
Image publisher:
[Paul Marret]
Image date:
[1720]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 166
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
13 cm.
Image dimension width:
17 cm.
Page dimension height:
16.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
20.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Native Americans worship before an idol in the interior of a temple. The idol, with wings and wearing a feather headdress, has a face on his stomach and goat legs with cloven hooves. It stands on an altar decorated with feathers. In one hand, he holds a flaming torch, in the other, a shield with feathers on it and a branch. Also includes men worshipping before the idol and above the idol, representations of Aztec gods.
Source creator:
Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656
Source Title:
[New survey of the West Indies. French] Nouvelle relation, contenant les Voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne ...
Source place of publication:
A Amsterdam
Source publisher:
Chez Paul Marret, dans le Beurs-straat, proche le Dam à la Renommée
Source date:
M. DCCXX. [1720]
notes:
The idol is identified in the text as Tlumacaztli (perhaps Huitzilopochtli?). Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar, returned to England after several decades in Spanish America, became a Protestant and a principal advisor to Oliver Cromwell. Aveline was one of a large family of 17th- and 18th-century printmakers.
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1866.
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:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies
Subject headings:
Mexico--History--To 1519
Subject headings:
Aztecs--Religion

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