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Marriage and Infant Rituals among the Mexicans, Engraving from 1734
1734 · Views & Engravings

Marriage and Infant Rituals among the Mexicans, Engraving from 1734

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Date
1734
Kind
Views & Engravings
Size
42 × 26 cm (16.5 × 10.2 in)
Condition
Good. Good, with minor age-related toning and only light foxing in the margins. The plate impression is strong and well-defined. This sheet is ideal for framing and would appeal to collectors of early ethnographic works or Mesoamerican studies.
Period
Colonial America
Places
Mexico
Reference
BG-13806-61
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

Marriage and infant ceremonies of the Mexicans, a copperplate engraving from Les Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses de tous les Peuples du Monde, engraved after designs by Bernard Picart, dated 1734 in the listing (Tome VI, plate numbered 91 at the top). Two scenes appear on one sheet.

The upper scene is lettered "Mariage des Mexicains". A couple joined by their robes stand before a priest on a stepped platform, with figures in feathered cloaks and headdresses on either side and women with children on the right. Beyond a balustrade there is a European-style town. The lower scene, "Cérémonies que les Mexicains pratiquent à l'égard de leurs Enfans", shows priests and attendants presenting infants before an enthroned idol with a shield, a basin and a chest in the foreground, and a crowd of women at the back.

The scenes are European constructions built from written accounts of Aztec customs, and they show the Mexicans in classical poses and architecture.

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