Old Print of Mexicans Showing the Rejoicings at the Beginning of the Age, 1778

Name: Old Print of Mexicans Showing the Rejoicings at the Beginning of the Age, 1778
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-07983
Price: 245 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1778
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 23 × 38.5 cm (9.1 × 15.2 in)
Condition: Good. GoodWear consistent with age and use.
Period: The Early Republic
Places: Mexico
Reference: BG-07983

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.

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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

The Rejoicings of the Mexicans, at the Beginning of the Age, an original copper engraving of 1778 from J.H. Moore's New Complete Collection of Voyages and Travels, engraved by A. Hogg and published in London by Alex. Hogg at the King's Arms, Paternoster Row. The sheet is printed in black, with the title engraved in script beneath the image.

A ring of dancers in feathered headdresses and fringed skirts moves in the foreground, hand in hand, while a kneeling musician at the left beats a barrel drum and others raise clubs and wave their arms. Further dancers and onlookers fill the middle distance beneath a palm and a leafy tree, and at the right rises a stepped, domed temple platform with a large sun disc carved on its face. The scene illustrates the ceremonial celebration with which the Mexicans marked the start of a new cycle of years, as imagined by an eighteenth-century European engraver.

Moore's compilation gathered accounts of voyages by Cook, Magellan, Drake, Anson, Dampier, Wallis and other explorers, and its plates, like this one, show native peoples as European artists pictured them rather than as they appeared.

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