1. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 15335 Record number 15335-2 JCB call number J522 N543z [F] Image title [View of Tenochtitlán] Place image published [Augsburg?] Image date [1522?] Image function illustration; leaf [iv] Technique woodcut Image dimension height 10.2 cm. Image dimension width 12.2 cm. Page dimension height 19.4 cm. Page dimension width 14.2 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages German Description View of fortified city surrounded by water with men standing before its bridges. Built environment includes dwellings, fortifications, boats, and outlying settlements. Source Title Newe Zeittung. Von dem Lande. Das die Sponier funden haben ym 1521. iare genant Jucatan... Source place of publication [Augsburg?] Source date [1522?] notes This is the first published view of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlán, as it was supposed to have looked before its destruction by Hernán Cortés and its rebuilding as Mexico City. The artist has interpreted written accounts of the "city in a lake" with its causeways linking the city and surrounding land, giving it a distinctly medieval European appearance. Time Period 1492-1600 References Wagner, H.R. "Three accounts of the expedition of Fernando Cortes, printed in Germany," Hispanic American Historical Review, May 1929; John Carter Brown Library, Annual Report, 1929, p. 8-9 References exhibitions Danforth, S. Encountering the New World, Fig. 14 Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1929. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 Commentary Add a comment geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540 Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel

2. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 09187 Record number 09187-11 JCB call number J590 B915v GVG 9 / 2-SIZE Image title Wie die Mexicaner durch ihren Abgott gelentet und geführet worden. Place image published [Frankfurt am Main] Image publisher [Wolffgang Richter] Image date [1601] Image function illustration; pt. 3, plate 12 Technique engraving Image dimension height 14.6 cm. Image dimension width 18.9 cm. Page dimension height 35.3 cm. Page dimension width 23.3 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages German Description Founding of Tenochtitlán or Mexico City. An eagle devours a bird while perched on a tree beside a river. Native Mexicans bow down before the eagle. Other men pole floating gardens on a raft down the river. The raft contains maize, squash, birds, and flowers. Others carry an idol to the riverbanks and build a dwelling. Source Title [America. Pt 9. German] Neundter und Letzter Theil Americae... Source place of publication Franckfurt am Mayn [Frankfurt am Main] Source publisher Bey Wolffgang Richter Source date [1601] notes Text describes the founding of Mexico City. The Aztecs or Mexica, guided by the prophecies of Huitzilopochtli (the god of the sun and war), ended their migration by building Tenochtitlán, on an island in a lake where an eagle held a snake perched on a flowering nopal cactus. The cactus grew, according to their mythology, from the heart of Copil, son of Huitzilopochtli's sister, which had been flung onto the island. The Aztecs created artificial islands called chinampas which were made by piling earth from the bottom of Lake Texcoco onto rafts made of weeds. After a while, the roots of the plants and trees grew down to the lake bottom, creating new farmland. This work contains three different voyages; Pt. 1 is José de Acosta, Historie naturael ende morael van de Westersche Indien, Haarlem, 1598; Pt. 2 is Barent Janszoon Potgieter, Wijdtloopigh verhael van tgene de vijf schepen, Amsterdam, 1600, here entitled Relatio historica; the appendix and Pt. 3 is Olivier van Noort, Beschryvinghe van de voyagie, Rotterdam & Amsterdam, 1602, here entitled Additamentum nonae partis Americae. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 9. German. Time Period 1601-1650 References Church, E.D. Discovery, 168; http://lsa.colorado.edu/~lsa/texts/Aztecs.html (July 2004) Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1865. 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 Mexico City (Mexico) Subject headings Aztec mythology

3. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 09886 Record number 09886-10 JCB call number J590 B915v GVG 13 / 2-SIZE Image title Descriptio urbis Mexico, & Novae Hispaniae Place image published [Frankfurt am Main] Image publisher [Matthäus Merian] Image date [1634] Image function illustration; p. 125 Technique engraving Image dimension height 15.2 cm. Image dimension width 17.7 cm. Page dimension height 35.7 cm. Page dimension width 23 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Italian Description Bird's-eye view of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán, showing the dam that regulated water level, causeways, the templo mayor, outlying villages such as Tesqua and Iztapalapa, and settlements on islands. Built environment includes gardens, the source of the city's water, boats, and dwellings. Source Title [America. Pt 13. Latin] Decima tertia pars Historiae Americanae... Source place of publication Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfurt am Main] Source publisher Sumptibus Matthaei Meriani civis & Chalcographi Francofurtensis. [Matthäus Merian] Source date M DC XXXIV [1634] notes This plan is based on a view in Benedetto Bordone, Isolario, Venice, 1528, which in turn was probably derived from sketches made by Hernán Cortés and published in his Letter, Nuremberg, 1524. This work was first published in German, as part XIII (1628) and part XIV (1630). Here Merian united the two parts and had them translated into Latin. Together the work includes 15 sections. Theodor de Bry's America. Pt. 13. Latin. Time Period 1601-1650 References Church, E.D. Discovery, 174 Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1865. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

4. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 06599 Record number 06599-1 JCB call number Z L864 1758 Image title Plano de Mexico Place image published [Madrid] Image publisher [Antonio Sanz Plazuela] Image date [1758] Image function plate; following p. 4 Technique engraving Image dimension height 11.7 cm. Image dimension width 8 cm. Page dimension height 12.4 cm. Page dimension width 9.2 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Spanish Description Plan of Mexico City. Items in the image are numbered for identification in a key below. Source creator López de Vargas Machuca, Tomás, 1731-1802 Source Title Atlas geographico de la America septentrional y meridional Source place of publication Se hallerà en Madrid Source publisher en Casa de Antonio Sanz Plazuela de la Calle de la Paz Source date 1758 Time Period 1751-1800 Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1969. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 Commentary Add a comment geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

5. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 04684 Record number 04684-42 JCB call number Codex Fr 1 Image title La ville de Mexique Place image published [France?] Image date [1602?] Image function illustration; recto leaf 24 Technique painting, manuscript Image dimension height 17.8 cm. Image dimension width 19.7 cm. Page dimension height 30.1 cm. Page dimension width 20.5 cm. Materials medium ink, watercolor Materials support paper Languages French Description Plan of Mexico City, Mexico, showing the lake and neighboring settlements. Includes native Americans, dwellings, and fortifications. Source creator Champlain, Samuel de Source Title Brief discours des choses plus remarquables que Samuel Champlain de Brouage á reconneues aux Indes occidentales Source place of publication [France?] Source date [1602?] notes The manuscript, attributed to Champlain, describes his voyage sailing with a Spanish fleet to the Caribbean in 1599 to 1600. Time Period 1601-1650 References Wilmere, A. Narrative of a voyage to the West Indies, p. 24-25 Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1884. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

6. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 8274 Record number 8274-1 JCB call number J575 B825c / 2-SIZE Image title [left] Mexico, Regia & Celebris Hispaniae Novae Civitas. [right] Cusco, Regni Peru In Novo orbe Caput. Place image published [Antwerp] Image publisher [G. van den Rade] Image date [1575] Image function plate 58 Technique etching, engraving Image dimension height 27.1 cm. (platemark) Image dimension width 47.6 cm. (platemark) Page dimension height 40.7 cm. Page dimension width 53.3 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Latin Description Bird's-eye views of Mexico City and Cuzco. The view of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán includes causeways, dikes, the central plaza with temples and the statue of an idol, people boating, outlying settlements around Lake Texcoco, and three native Americans in Source creator Braun, Georg, 1540 or 1-1622 Source Title Civitates orbis terrarum Source place of publication Antwerpiae [Antwerp] Source publisher Apud Aegidium Radeum Source date MDLXXV [1575] notes This is the first example of a systematic atlas of cities and was meant to complement Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum. Georg Braun was a priest and geographer. Although neither print is signed, the engravers are known to be Frans Hogenberg (1538-1590) Time Period 1492-1600 References Braun, Georg, Civitates orbis terrarum, 1572-1618... With an introduction by R. A. Skelton, Amsterdam, 1965. Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1912. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Cuzco (Peru) Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)

7. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 01631 Record number 01631-60 JCB call number F671 M765n / 1-SIZE Image title Vetis Mexico Place image published [Amsterdam] Image publisher [Jacob Meurs] Image date [1671] Image function plate; following p. 80 Technique engraving Image dimension height 28.6 cm. Image dimension width 35 cm. [both pages] Page dimension height 31.5 cm. Page dimension width 37 cm. [both pages] Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Latin, Italian Description View of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square. In the foreground, native Americans carry goods to the city. Includes horses, cattle, oxcarts, and parasols. Items in the image are lettered for identification in table at upper left. Source creator Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683 Source Title De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America Source place of publication t'Amsterdam Source publisher By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs Source date 1671 notes The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlán was before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. It is based on the woodcut view of Tenochtitlán in Hernán Cortés, Carta, Nuremberg, 1524. Time Period 1651-1700 Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1847. 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 Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)

8. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 07376 Record number 07376-66 JCB call number B728 H564h / 2-SIZE Image title La Villa de Mexico. Place image published Amberes [Antwerp] Image publisher [Juan Bautista Verdussen] Image date [1728] Image function plate; vol. 2, following p. 44 Technique engraving Image dimension height 19 cm. Image dimension width 27.3 cm. Page dimension height 34.7 cm. Page dimension width 22.2 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Spanish Description View of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square. Source creator Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625 Source Title [Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos] Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales... Tomo segundo Source place of publication En Amberes [Antwerp] Source publisher Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, Mercader de Libros Source date M.D.CC.XXVIII [1728] notes The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlan was before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, Amsterdam 1681, who in turn derived his view from the Hernán Cortés map-view of Tenochtitlán. Image placed horizontally on page. Time Period 1701-1750 References Cf. Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.24, p. 92-93 Provenance/Donor Acquired circa 1916. 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 Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

9. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 01564 Record number 01564-3 JCB call number D720 G133n Image title Mexique Place image published [Amsterdam] Image publisher [Paul Marret] Image date [1720] Image function fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 116 Technique engraving Image dimension height 13 cm. Image dimension width 17 cm. Page dimension height 16.4 cm. Page dimension width 20.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages French Description View of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square. Source creator Gage, Thomas, 1603?-1656 Source Title [New survey of the West Indies. French] Nouvelle relation, contenant les Voyages de Thomas Gage dans la Nouvelle Espagne... Source place of publication A Amsterdam Source publisher Chez Paul Marret, dans le Beurs-straat, proche le Dam à la Renommée Source date M. DCCXX. [1720] notes The city is shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlán before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, Amsterdam 1681, who in turn derived his view from the Hernán Cortés map-view of Tenochtitlán. Thomas Gage, an English Dominican friar, returned to England after several decades in Spanish America, became a Protestant and a principal advisor to Oliver Cromwell. Time Period 1701-1750 References Cf. Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.24, p. 92-93 Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1866. 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 Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

10. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 07376 Record number 07376-59 JCB call number B728 H564h / 2-SIZE Image title [Tenochtitlan or Mexico City and environs] Place image published [Antwerp] Image publisher [Juan Bautista Verdussen] Image date [1728] Image function fold-out plate; vol. 1, following p. 398 Technique etching Image dimension height 22.6 cm. Image dimension width 52.8 cm. Page dimension height 25 cm. Page dimension width 54.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Spanish Description View of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city in the lake to the land. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square. Source creator Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625 Source Title [Historia general de los hechos de los castellanos] Historia general de las Indias Ocidentales... Tomo primo Source place of publication En Amberes [Antwerp] Source publisher Por Juan Bautista Verdussen, Mercader de Libros Source date M.D.CC.XXVIII [1728] notes The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlán was before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, A Time Period 1701-1750 Provenance/Donor Acquired circa 1916. 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 Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Maps

11. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 01631 Record number 01631-17 JCB call number F671 M765n / 1-SIZE Image title Nova Mexico. Place image published [Amsterdam] Image publisher [Jacob Meurs] Image date [1671] Image function fold-out plate; following p. 232 Technique engraving Image dimension height 28.4 cm. Image dimension width 54.2 cm. [both pages] Page dimension height 31.6 cm. Page dimension width 55.5 cm. [both pages] Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages Spanish Description Bird's-eye view of Mexico City after the Spanish conquest from the shore of a lake. Built environment includes churches, walls, fountains, and dwellings. Also includes domestic animals, dogs, horses, fields outside of the city walls and black or native American men farming, boating on a canal or river, hauling goods on an ox-drawn cart, and carrying loads on their backs. Items in image are lettered for identification in a key below. Source creator Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683 Source Title De Nieuwe en onbekende Weereld: of Beschryving van America Source place of publication t'Amsterdam Source publisher By Jacob Meurs Boek-verkooper en Plaet-snyder, op de Kaisars-graf, schuin over de wester-markt, in de stad Meurs Source date 1671 notes Derived from a view in an unpublished atlas by Johannes Vingboons in 1628, this image was probably copied from a map of Juan Gomez de Trasmonte, supervisor for the construction of the drainage system of Mexico City in 1628. That map may have been brought to the Netherlands by Adrian Boot, the Belgian engineer responsible for designing the project. Time Period 1651-1700 References Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.23; Lombardo de Ruiz, S. Atlas histórico de la ciudad de México, lamina 125 Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1847. 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 Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel

12. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 05425 Record number 05425-4 JCB call number D824 B938s Image title View of the City and Valley of Mexico, from Tacubaya. Creator 1 William Bullock Creator 1 dates 1775-1840 Creator 1 role Drawn on the Spot by Creator 2 I. Clark Creator 2 role sc. Place image published London Image publisher I. Murray Image date 1824 Image function fold-out frontispiece Technique etching, aquatint Image dimension height 14 cm. Image dimension width 37 cm. Page dimension height 21 cm. Page dimension width 42.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages English Description View of Mexico City and its valley from Tacubaya. Includes monasteries, churches, dwellings, cacti and other succulents. Source creator Bullock, W. (William), fl. 1808-1828 Source Title Six months' residence and travels in Mexico... Source place of publication London Source publisher John Murray, Albemarle-Street Source date 1824 notes William Bullock (1775-1840) was a jeweler and goldsmith from Sheffield, England, who founded a museum in London to display his collection of objects. Bullock traveled to Mexico City in 1823; in 1824 he held an exhibit of ancient Mexican artifacts he had acquired. Plates based on author's drawings. The engraver may be John Clark, an English engraver active from 1775 to 1825. Time Period 1801-1850 Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1870. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico) Subject headings Mexico--Description and travel

13. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 03816 Record number 03816-008 JCB call number B691 S687hp / 1-SIZE Image title La ville de Mexique Place image published [Paris] Image publisher [Robert Pepie] Image date [1691] Image function fold-out plate; following p. 274 Technique engraving Image dimension height 19.5 cm. Image dimension width 27.6 cm. Page dimension height 24.5 cm. Page dimension width 32.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages French Description View of Mexico City or Tenochtitlán showing the various islands, aqueduct, and causeways or bridges which linked the city. Also includes men on horseback, domestic animals, boats, churches, dwellings, wicker dams, and main square. Items in the image are lettered for identification in table at bottom. Source creator Solís, Antonio de, 1610-1686 Source Title [Historia de la conquista de Mexico. French] Histoire de la conquête du Mexique ou de la Nouvelle Espagne Source place of publication A Paris Source publisher Chez Robert Pepie, ruë Saint Jacques, à l'Image S. Basile, au dessus de la Fontaine S. Severin Source date M.DC.XCI [1691] notes The city is probably depicted as the artist imagined Tenochtitlan was before Europeans arrived, with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, Amsterdam 1681, who in turn derived his view from the Hernán Cortés map-view of Tenochtitlán. Time Period 1651-1700 References Cf. Kagan, R.L. Urban Images of the Hispanic World, Fig. 4.24, p. 92-93 Provenance/Donor Acquired in 1868. 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 Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel

14. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 07324b Record number 07324b-3 JCB call number B725 H564g Image title The Great Temple of Mexico Place image published [London] Image publisher [Jeremiah Batley] Image date [1725] Image function fold-out plate; vol. 2, following p. 372 Technique engraving Image dimension height 16.3 cm. (platemark) Image dimension width 21.5 cm. (platemark) Page dimension height 19.2 cm. Page dimension width 23.3 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages English Description Bird's-eye view of the main temple [the Templo mayor] of Tenochtitlán or present-day Mexico City. The temple is encircled by a wall with serpents or snakes carved on it, and there are two sanctuaries on the top before which two priests stand. Includes view of the settlement with dwellings and fortifications, as well as a view of the lake beyond it. Source creator Herrera y Tordesillas, Antonio de, d. 1625 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 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, 1691. Time Period 1701-1750 Provenance/Donor Acquired circa 1916. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 geographic area Spanish America Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Aztec architecture Subject headings Aztecs--Religion Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel

15. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 34917 Record number 34917-4 JCB call number D741 A512t Image title The great Temple of Mexico. Place image published [London] Image publisher [J. Fuller] Image date [1741] Image function plate; following p. 184 Technique engraving Image dimension height 8.8 cm. Image dimension width 14 cm. Page dimension height 16.8 cm. Page dimension width 10.5 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Languages English Description Bird's-eye view of the main temple [Templo mayor] of Mexico City (Tenochtitlán). The temple precinct is defined by a wall with serpents or snakes carved on it. Before two sanctuaries on the top of the temple, priests sacrifice a victim. A body is tossed down the stairs. Dancers celebrate in front of the temple within the wall. In foreground is probably a skull rack or tzompantli and native Americans with bows and arrows wearing feathered headdresses and garments. Source Title The American traveller; being a new historical collection carefully compiled from original memoirs in several languages,... containing a compleat account of that part of the world, now called the West Indies, from its discovery by Columbus to the present time.... Source place of publication London Source publisher J. Fuller at the Dove in Creed-Lane Source date M.DCC.XLI. [1741] notes Huitzilopochtli (god of war and the sun) and Tlaloc (god of rain) both had temples at the top of this structure.For similar images earlier than this one, cf. 01564-4 (1720) and especially 07639-3 (1723). For similar images later than this one, cf. 04878-39 (1752) and especially 05741-8 (1769) and 34575-5 (1778).Image placed horizontally on page. Time Period 1701-1750 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 Aztec architecture Subject headings Aztecs--Rites and ceremonies Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel Subject headings Indians of Mexico--Religion Subject headings Human sacrifice

16. ------------- Image1 ------------- Field Data Accession number 06827 Record number 06827-5 JCB call number B733 S687i Image title [Vignettes of Tenochtitlan, native American feast, symbols of office, and Aztec god (?)] Creator 1 Alessandro dalla Via Creator 1 dates fl. 1688-1729 Creator 1 role f[ecit]. Place image published [Venice] Image publisher [Andrea Poletti] Image date [1733] Image function plate; following p. 186 Technique engraving Image dimension height 18.3 cm. Image dimension width 13 cm. Page dimension height 23.3 cm. Page dimension width 17 cm. Materials medium ink Materials support paper Description [top] Bird's-eye view of Tenochtitlan or Mexico City. [middle] Scene of native American feasting. Includes feathered headdresses and garments. [bottom] Symbols of office. Aztec god wearing a headdress with an eagle [?] on it. Source creator Solís, Antonio de, 1610-1686 Source Title [Historia de la conquista de México. Italian] Istoria della conquista del Messico... Source place of publication In Venezia [Venice] Source publisher Per Andrea Poletti Source date MCDDXXXIII [1733] notes The city is probably shown as the artist imagined Tenochtitlan was before Europeans arrived, but with European-type houses and churches and men on horseback or herding sheep. The image is derived from Carol Allard, Orbis habitabilis oppida et vestitas, Amsterdam 1681, who in turn derived his view from the Hernán Cortés map-view of Tenochtitlán. The Aztec god is possibly Huitzilopochtli, the Aztec god of the sun and war and patron of Tenochtitlan. The turquoise or fire serpent (xiuhcoatl) was his mystical weapon and he carried a shield with five arrows in it. Time Period 1701-1750 Provenance/Donor Acquired before 1870. Owner and copyright ©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912 Subject Area Artifacts, industry, and human activities Subject Area Geography, maps, city views and plans Subject Area Indigenous peoples Subject headings Mexico City (Mexico)--Description and travel Subject headings Indians of Mexico--Religion