Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Vases anciens des Quichuas ou Incas de la côte du Pérou.

Accession number: 
02-15
Record number: 
02-15-63
JCB call number: 
E835 O64v / 2-SIZE
Image title: 
Vases anciens des Quichuas ou Incas de la côte du Pérou.
Creator 1: 
Emile Lassalle
Creator 1 dates: 
1813-1871
Creator 1 role: 
del. et lith.
Creator 2: 
L. Letronne
Creator 2 role: 
lith.
Place image published: 
[Paris]
Image publisher: 
Levrault
Image date: 
[1844]
Image function: 
plate 20; vol. 3, part 5
Technique: 
lithograph
Image dimension height: 
27.1 cm.
Image dimension width: 
22 cm.
Page dimension height: 
35 cm.
Page dimension width: 
26.6 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
Anthropomorphic and animalistic vases in various shapes, said to have been made by the Quechua and Inca of Peru.
Source creator: 
Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines d', 1802-1857
Source Title: 
[Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale] Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, ... l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou) ... Tome troisième
Source place of publication: 
Paris; Strasbourg
Source publisher: 
Chez P. Bertrand, éditeur ... ; Chez V[euv]e. LeVrault ...
Source date: 
1844
notes: 
Probably vases made by the Moche or Mochica Indians of Peru or Bolivia whose impressive pottery is the major indication of the sophistication of their civilization.Originally issued in 90 fascicles between 1834 and 1847; typically bound in 7 to 11 volumes.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Subject matter: 
artifacts
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 2002.
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: 
Mochica Indians
Subject headings: 
Mochica pottery
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Antiquities--Bolivia
Subject headings: 
Indians of South America--Antiquities--Peru