COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
02-15
Record number:
02-15-55
JCB call number:
E835 O64v / 2-SIZE
Image title:
Ruines d'un temple des Incas, dans l'île de Titicaca. (Bolivia.)
Creator 1:
Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny
Creator 1 dates:
1802-1857
Creator 1 role:
delt.
Creator 2:
Emile Lassalle
Creator 2 dates:
1813-1871
Creator 2 role:
lith.
Place image published:
[Paris]
Image publisher:
Levrault
Image date:
[1844]
Image function:
plate 12; vol. 3, part 5
Technique:
lithograph
Image dimension height:
17.5 cm.
Image dimension width:
27.2 cm.
Page dimension height:
35 cm.
Page dimension width:
26.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
View of an Inca temple on an island in Lake Titicaca. Includes a square stone building and two native American women.
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:
One of the islands of Titicaca, also known as Isla del Sol, contains an Inca temple. The Isla del Sol is pivotal in the Inca creation myth which relates how Manco Capac emerged from Titikala (the sacred rock).Originally issued in 90 fascicles between 1834 and 1847; typically bound in 7 to 11 volumes.Lemercier & Companie was a leading lithography firm in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. Image placed horizontally on page.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
Sturgis, R. A dictionary of architecture and building, p. 557
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:
Indians of South America--Antiquities--Bolivia
Subject headings:
Inca architecture
Subject headings:
Titicaca Island (Bolivia)
Ruines d'un temple des Incas, dans l'île de Titicaca. (Bolivia.)
