Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Holy figure with papal symbols, eagles, and cactus]

Accession number: 
04259
Record number: 
04259-1
JCB call number: 
BA730 B271d
Image title: 
[Holy figure with papal symbols, eagles, and cactus]
Place image published: 
[Mexico]
Image publisher: 
[Heirs of the Widow of Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio]
Image date: 
[1730]
Image function: 
illustration; following title page
Technique: 
woodcut
Image dimension height: 
10.7 cm.
Image dimension width: 
8.5 cm.
Page dimension height: 
18.4 cm.
Page dimension width: 
13.3 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Description: 
A figure [the Virgin Mary?] stands above two eagles [?], snakes (held in the eagles' talons), and a cactus. Two angels holding keys hold back a curtain. Above the figure is a papal crown.
Source creator: 
Barreda, Nicolás de la
Source Title: 
Doctrina christiana en lengua chinanteca, añadida la explicacion de los principales mysterios de la fee ...
Source place of publication: 
En Mexico
Source publisher: 
Por los herederos de la viuda de Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, en la puente de Palacio
Source date: 
1730
notes: 
Perhaps meant to represent the Virgin of Guadalupe, the figure shown in the image combines elements of European rule [the papal crown and keys and the double-headed Hapsburg eagle] and elements of indigenous legend [the eagle may represent the eagle which led the Aztecs to their home in Tenochtitlan].
Time Period: 
1701-1750
Visual categories: 
Emblems (Allegorical pictures)
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired in 1871.
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 headings: 
Guadalupe, Our Lady of
Subject headings: 
Emblems--Mexico
Subject headings: 
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Apparitions and miracles--Mexico