Mexico [art original].
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Lewis Walpole Library > Mexico [art original].
Description
- Title
- Mexico [art original].
- Published / Created
- [18th century?]
- Publication Place
- England?
- Abstract
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A collage with a wash drawing depicting native people of Mexico on a hillside with the sky above, mounted in the center of which is an engraving of a view of a walled city surrounded by a river, the arrangement giving the impression that the two drawn figures are looking out over a valley at the settlement in the distance below them. A couple prominent in the left foreground, stand in front of a tree; the man faces the viewer and wears a feathered headdress and loin cloth; the spear in his right hand rests on his right shoulder; the shield in his left hand is propped up against the ground. The woman with her back to the viewer, wears a sleeveless top, a skirt, and sandals; her long hair falls past her waist; food items are visible within the basket she carries in the crook of her right arm. Two other figures work in the clearing below
- Description
-
Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Place and date of production inferred from associated engravings mounted in the same extra-illustrated volume, many of which were published in London in the eighteenth century.
Mounted on page 134 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884. - Provenance
- Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 628, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
- Extent
- 1 collage : sheet 18.3 x 24 cm, window mounted to 38.5 x 28 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
- Collection Title
- Volume 6, page 134. Horace Walpole and his world.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
- Collection Date
- London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Collages
Views
Mixed media works - Material
- brown wash with pencil, engraving ; and laid paper
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Mexico.
- Subject (Topic)
-
Indigenous peoples
Cities & towns - Subjects
-
Mexico
Indigenous peoples > Mexico
Cities & towns > Mexico
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Mexico. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13691097
- Object ID (OID)
- 16704368