MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
04878
Record number:
04878-37
JCB call number:
J752 A394g
Image title:
Das alte Mexico.
Place image published:
[Halle]
Image publisher:
[Johann Justinus Gebauer]
Image date:
[1752]
Image function:
fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 16
Technique:
etching
Image dimension height:
18.7 cm.
Image dimension width:
26.8 cm.
Page dimension height:
24 cm.
Page dimension width:
29.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
German
Description:
Bird's-eye view of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square.
Source Title:
Algemeine Geschichte de Länder und Völker von America. Zweiter Theil. Nebst einer Vorrede Siegmund Jacob Baumgartens ...
Source place of publication:
Halle
Source publisher:
bey Johann Justinus Gebauer
Source date:
1752
notes:
The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlán was before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches. Cuyioacan (or Coyoacan) may be where Hernán Cortés lived. Suchimilco (or Xochimilco) was the site of a famous battle won by Cortés. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, Amsterdam 1681, who in turn derived his view from the Hernán Cortés map-view of Tenochtitlán. This image is similar to the one printed in Antonio de Solís, Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, Paris, 1691, following p. 272. Compiled and translated from several sources by Johann Friedrich Schröter, with a preface by Siegmund Jakob Baumgarten. Schröter was secretary to the Privy Council of Magdeburg and had served for some years as a missionary in Canada.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1963.
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

Das alte Mexico.

Das alte Mexico.