COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
34575
Record number:
34575-4
JCB call number:
D778 R968h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
A View of the City of Mexico.
Creator 1:
John Lodge
Creator 1 dates:
d. 1796
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[London]
Image publisher:
[Fielding & Walker]
Image date:
[1778]
Image function:
plate; vol. 1, following p. 142
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
14.4 cm.
Image dimension width:
20 cm.
Page dimension height:
25.9 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
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 creator:
Russell, William, 1741-1793
Source Title:
The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus ... Volume I.
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Fielding and Walker, no. 20, Pater-noster-Row
Source date:
MDCCLXXVIII. [1778]
notes:
The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlan 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, Amsterdam 1681, who in turn derived his view from the Hernán Cortés map-view of Tenochtitlán. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1751-1800
References:
Cf. Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.24, p. 92-93
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1874.
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)--Description and travel
A View of the City of Mexico.
