Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [left] Mexico, Regia & Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas. [right] Cusco, Regni Peru In Novo orbe Caput.

Accession number: 
8274
Record number: 
8274-1
JCB call number: 
J575 B825c / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
[left] Mexico, Regia & Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas. [right] Cusco, Regni Peru In Novo orbe Caput.
Place image published: 
[Antwerp]
Image publisher: 
[G. van den Rade]
Image date: 
[1575]
Image function: 
plate 58
Technique: 
etching, engraving
Image dimension height: 
27.1 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width: 
47.6 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height: 
40.7 cm.
Page dimension width: 
53.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
Latin
Description: 
Bird's-eye views of Mexico City and Cuzco. The view of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán includes causeways, dikes, the central plaza with temples and the statue of an idol, people boating, outlying settlements around Lake Texcoco, and three native Americans in
Source creator: 
Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1-1622
Source Title: 
Civitates orbis terrarum
Source place of publication: 
Antwerpiae [Antwerp]
Source publisher: 
Apud Aegidium Radeum
Source date: 
MDLXXV [1575]
notes: 
This is the first example of a systematic atlas of cities and was meant to complement Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Georg Braun was a priest and geographer. Although neither print is signed, the engravers are known to be Frans Hogenberg (1538-1590)
Time Period: 
1492-1600
References: 
Braun, Georg, Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572-1618... With an introduction by R. A. Skelton, Amsterdam, 1965.
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1912.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area: 
Spanish America
Subject Area: 
Geography, maps, city views and plans
Subject Area: 
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings: 
Cuzco (Peru)
Subject headings: 
Mexico City (Mexico)