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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
07376
Record number:
07376-59
JCB call number:
B728 H564h / 2-SIZE
Image title:
[Tenochtitlan or Mexico City and environs]
Place image published:
[Antwerp]
Image publisher:
[Juan Bautista Verdussen]
Image date:
[1728]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 398
Technique:
etching
Image dimension height:
22.6 cm.
Image dimension width:
52.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
25 cm.
Page dimension width:
54.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
View of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city in the lake to the land. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square.
Source creator:
Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625
Source Title:
[Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos] Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales ... Tomo primo
Source place of publication:
En Amberes [Antwerp]
Source publisher:
Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, Mercader de Libros
Source date:
M.D.CC.XXVIII [1728]
notes:
The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlán was before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, A
Time Period:
1701-1750
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired circa 1916.
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 headings:
Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

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