MEDIA INFORMATION

 
 
 
COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
28917
Record number:
28917-1
JCB call number:
BA69- G643v
Image title:
[Title page]
Place image published:
[Mexico]
Image publisher:
[Widow of Bernardo Calderon]
Image date:
[1682]
Image function:
title page
Technique:
woodcut
Image dimension height:
10.3 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.5 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.4 cm.
Page dimension width:
14.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Inscription:
Not in Medina
Languages:
Spanish
Description:
The Virgin Mary stands on a cactus surrounded by angels and superimposed on a Hapsburg double-headed eagle. The eagle is surmounted by the papal crown and keys.
Source Title:
Villancicos, que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico: en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios. En su Assumpcion triumphante ...
Source place of publication:
En Mexico
Source publisher:
Por la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon
Source date:
1682
notes:
The eagle perched on a cactus was a sign to the wandering Mexica or Aztec tribe of the site where they were to build their city of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City.Publication information taken from colophon.
Time Period:
1651-1700
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1941.
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:
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Devotion to--Mexico
Subject headings:
Emblems--Mexico

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