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Title: [Capture of City of Mexico, 1521] (3 views)
Creator: Aglio, Agostino, 1777-1857
Contributor: Kingsborough, Edward King, Viscount, 1795-1837
Date Created and/or Issued: 1830
Publication Information: London : A. Aglio
Contributing Institution: California State Library
Collection: California History Section Picture Catalog
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Description: Plates in: Antiquities of Mexico. Plate [51] - [53].
Shows images of Aztecs and Spaniards.
View 1 (2010-5425SUT). Plate [51] -- view 2 (2010-5426SUT). Plate [52] -- view 3 (2010-5427SUT). Plate [53] -- view 4 (2010-5424SUT). Text.
Lord Kingsborough commissioned artists to reproduce the Meso-American codices found in the collections of various European institutions. He published Antiquities of Mexico in 1831. This volume appears to be either a pre-production sample or a gift containing images from volumes I, III and VI.
Type: image
Format: Facsimiles.
Pictorial works.
Nonprojected graphic
Extent: 3 drawings : hand col. ; image 9 5/8 x 9 1/2 in., 7 1/2 x 10 in., and 8 3/8 x 9 5/8 in. on pages 12 3/8 x 14 5/8 in.
Identifier: (C)001487410CSL01-Aleph
Language: English
Subject: Manuscripts, Nahuatl--Facsimiles
Manuscripts, Mexican--Facsimiles
Aztecs--Antiquities--Pictorial works
Nahuatl language--Writing--Pictorial works
Tenochtitlán, Battle of, Mexico City, Mexico, 1521--Pictorial works
War--Mexico
Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Pictorial works
Drawings
Time Period: Conquest, 1519-1540
Place: Mexico

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