Image Field Data Accession number Record number JCB call number J631 G685n / 2-SIZE Image title [Mexico City] Place image published [Frankfurt am Main] Image publisher [Matthäus Merian] Image date [1631] Image function illustration; [part 2], p. 48 Technique engraving Image dimension height 15.7 cm. Image dimension width 17.5 cm. Page dimension height 37.1 cm. Page dimension width 22.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Italian Description A bird's eye view of Tenochtitlán (present-day Mexico City). Built environment consists of a sacrificial temple [the Templo Mayor], causeways, buildings, dwellings, and some settlements of the Mexican valley--Atacuba, Tesgua, and Yztapalapa. Source creator Gottfried, Johann Ludwig, 17th cent. Source Title Newe Welt und Americanische Historien... Source place of publication zu Franctfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main] Source publisher Durch Matthaeum Merian, Buchändlern un Kunststechern Source date MDCXXXI. [1631] notes Cf , Antoine DuPinet, sieur de Noroy, Plantz, pourtraitz et descriptions de plusieurs villes, Lyons, Theodor de Bry and his sons issued a series of books on voyages to America in fifteen parts between 1590 and In 1631, Gottfried (a printer who had worked on the de Bry volumes) issued this one-volume condensation of all the voyages. He reused many of the plates from the original volumes, but supplemented them with new ones. Theodor de Bry. America. Part 13. Time Period Provenance/Donor Acquired in Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

Image Field Data Accession number Record number JCB call number Z C / 3-SIZE Image title Description, Situation & Vue de la ville de Mexique... Place image published [Amsterdam] Image publisher [Zacherie Chatelain] Image date [1732] Image function plate; vol. 6, following p. 110 Technique engraving Image dimension height 36.7 cm. Image dimension width 43 cm. [both pages] Page dimension height 48.5 cm. Page dimension width 57.2 cm. [both pages Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages French Description Views of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán, the grand Aztec temple, as well as illustrations of the dance called mitoles and worship before the altar of Huitzilopochtli. Includes a scene of sacrifice with priest and pyramid. Also includes map of Mexico or New Spain and plan of Mexico City. Source creator Chatelain, Henri Abraham Source Title Atlas historique, ou nouvelle introduction a l'histoire... Tome VI. Qui comprend l'Afrique & l'Amerique... Source place of publication Amsterdam Source publisher Chez Zacharie Chatelain Source date M. DCC. XXXII. [1732] notes Huitzilopochtli or Huitziláihuitl, an Aztec god symbolized by the hummingbird, was the god of the sun and war. The descriptions and illustrations are taken from Theodor de Bry, America. Pt 9. Time Period Provenance/Donor Acquired in Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Indians of Mexico--Rites and ceremonies Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps Subject headings Aztecs--Religion

Image Field Data Accession number Record number JCB call number BA803 H542s Image title Templo mayor de Mexico. Place image published [Mexico] Image publisher [Maria Fernandez Jauregui] Image date 1803 Image function plate; following p. 146 Technique engraving Image dimension height 18.2 cm. (platemark) Image dimension width 12.7 cm. (platemark) Page dimension height 20.7 cm. Page dimension width 14.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Spanish Description The sacrificial temple [the Templo Mayor] at Tenochtitlan. Includes the square the temple is in, dwellings, and the settlement or city outside its gates. Source creator Heredia y Sarmiento, Joseph Ignacio, Source Title Sermon panegirico de la gloriosa aparicion de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, que en el dia 12 de diciembre de Source place of publication [Mexico] Source publisher En la Imprenta de doña Maria Fernandez Jauregui, calle de Stô. Domingo Source date 1803 notes The major Aztec temple at Tenochtitlan [Mexico City] was surmounted by two sanctuaries--the one on the left dedicated to Tlaloc (the god of rain), the one on the right to Huitzilopochtli (the god of the sun and war). Time Period Provenance/Donor Acquired in Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject headings Aztec architecture Subject headings Templo Mayor (Mexico City, Mexico)

Image Field Data Accession number Record number JCB call number D778 R968h / 1-SIZE Image title A View of the Great Temple of Mexico. Creator 1 John Lodge Creator 1 dates d Creator 1 role sculp. Place image published [London] Image publisher [Fielding & Walker] Image date [1778] Image function plate; vol. 1, following p. 144 Technique engraving Image dimension height 14.5 cm. Image dimension width 19.9 cm. Page dimension height 25.9 cm. Page dimension width 19.7 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages English Description Bird's-eye view of the main temple [the Templo mayor] of Mexico City. The temple is encircled by a wall with serpents or snakes carved on it and two sanctuaries on the top before which priests sacrifice a victim. A body is tossed down the stairs. Dancers celebrate before the temple within the wall. In foreground is a skull rack or tzompantli and native Americans with bows and arrows wearing feathered headdresses and garments. Source creator Russell, William, Source Title The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus... Volume I. Source place of publication London Source publisher Printed for Fielding and Walker, no. 20, Pater-noster-Row Source date MDCCLXXVIII. [1778] notes The great temple at Tenochtitlan was surmounted by two sanctuaries--the one on the left dedicated to Tlaloc, the one on the right to Huitzilopochtli. Huitzilopochtli, whose name means "Blue hummingbird on the left," was the Aztec god of the sun and war. The turquoise or fire serpent (xiuhcoatl) was his mystical weapon. Tlaloc, the god of rain and agriculture, was of pre-Aztec, or Toltec, origin. A coatepantli or wall made of sculpted serpents often surrounds Aztec temples. The tzompantli would hold the skulls of sacrificial victims. This image is similar to the one printed in Antonio de Solís, Histoire de la conquête du Mexique, Paris, Image placed horizontally on page. Time Period Provenance/Donor Acquired before Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Aztecs--Religion Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel

Image Field Data Accession number Record number JCB call number H719 G322v Image title [Map of the wanderings of the ancient Mexicans] Place image published [Paris] Image publisher [Etienne Ganeau] Image date 1719 Image function fold-out plate; vol. 6, following p. 38 Technique engraving Image dimension height 30 cm. Image dimension width 40.1 cm. Page dimension height 33.3 cm. Page dimension width 41.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages French, Nahuatl Description Conceptual map of the wanderings of the Mexicans on their search for a homeland. Significant places on their journey are given French and Nahuatl names and symbols. Includes location of Tenochtitlán marked by a cactus, Chapultépec [Hill of the Grasshopper], Chaco, Xaltzpozaulican, etc. Also includes native Americans or Mexicans, speaking bird, body parts, tzompantli or skull rack, and symbols of plants including maize and fruit trees. Source creator Gemelli Careri, Giovanni Francesco, Source Title [Giro du mondo. French] Voyage du tour du monde... Tome sixieme Source place of publication A Paris Source publisher Chez Etienne Ganeau, Libraire rue S. Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine S. Severin Source date.1719 notes Text states that image is a copy drawn by Charles Siguenza of an original drawn by native Americans.The Mexicans were told to search for a place that would be shown to them by the presence of an eagle standing on a cactus growing out of a rock. This place is Tenochtitlán or the present-day Mexico City. An abridged translation, variously attributed to Eustache Le Noble ( ) and to L.F. Dubois de Saint-Gelais. Cf , A collection of voyages and travels, London, 1704, which includes Gemelli Careri's voyage.Gemelli Careri was a world traveler who went around the world starting with the Holy Land and ending in Mexico. His five-year journey which began in 1693 ended by taking the silver fleet back to Spain from Cuba. Time Period Provenance/Donor Acquired in Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Aztecs--Kings and rulers--Mythology Subject headings Indians of Mexico Subject headings Mexico--History--To 1519

Image Field Data Accession number 07324b Record number 07324b-5 JCB call number B725 H564g Image title The Great Charnel House in ye City of Mexico Place image published [London] Image publisher [Jeremiah Batley] Image date [1725] Image function fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 380 Technique engraving Image dimension height 16.4 cm. (platemark) Image dimension width 21.4 cm. (platemark) Page dimension height 19.2 cm. Page dimension width 23.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages English Description Aztec or Mexican cemetery with human skulls placed in tiers in a circular wall and piled in two columns or towers. Source creator Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d Source Title [Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos. English] The general history of the vast continent and islands of America, commonly call'd the West-Indies... Vol. II Source place of publication London Source publisher Printed for Jer. Batley at the Dove in Pater-noster-row Source date M.DCC.XXV. [1725] notes Text describes the cemetery as a sort of theater with towers and walls made out of skulls and lime. Aztec temples used tzompantli or skull racks to hold the skulls of sacrificial victims. Time Period Provenance/Donor Acquired circa Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Aztecs--Religion Subject headings Indians of Mexico--Social life and customs

Image Field Data Accession number 0875 Record number JCB call number B646 O96hS / 1-SIZE Image title Capn. D. Fran[ces]co Rodriguez del Manzano Y Ovalle Place image published [Rome] Image publisher [Por Francisco Cavallo] Image date [1646] Image function plate; following p. 322 Technique engraving Image dimension height 21 cm. (platemark) Image dimension width 13.9 cm. (platemark) Page dimension height 25.4 cm. Page dimension width 17.3 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Spanish Description Portrait of Captain Francesco Rodriguez del Manzano y Ovalle holding a baton and with his hand resting on a helmet. Source creator Ovalle, Alonso de, Source Title [Historica relacion de reyno de Chile] Historica relacion del reyno de Chile, y delas missiones, y ministerios que exercita en el la Compañia de Iesus Source place of publication En Roma [Rome] Source publisher Por Francisco Cavallo Source date M. DC. XLVI. [1646] notes Manzano y Ovalle was the author's father. Time Period References (Oct. 2005) Provenance/Donor Acquired in Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Portraits Subject headings Conquerors--Chile