Antique Copper Engraving with a Panoramic View of Mexico City, ca.1760

Name: Antique Copper Engraving with a Panoramic View of Mexico City, ca.1760
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-09478
Price: 325 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1760
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 16 × 17.5 cm (6.3 × 6.9 in)
Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-09478

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

Nouveau Mexico, a copper engraving with a panoramic view of Mexico City, c.1760, engraved after Chedel. The title appears on a curling banner across the sky, and the lower right corner carries the volume mark "Tom. XII. N°. VI." with Chedel's name beside it.

The viewpoint looks across the city from rising ground. Beyond a few leafy trees and a church with a steep spire in the foreground, the city lies laid out in a regular grid of streets and blocks, divided by canals and crossed by a long arched causeway or aqueduct on the left. The lake stretches beyond, with sailing boats on the water and mountains and clouds along the horizon. A group of travelers with a laden mule and a few figures stand on the path in the foreground, and palms rise at the right.

Pierre Quentin Chedel (1705 to 1763) was a French etcher and engraver. The same view appears with a ruled frame in the Abbé Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages, which carries the same volume mark; this sheet is a trimmed copy without the frame, and its source work is not stated on the sheet itself.

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