drawing
- Museum number
- Am2006,Drg.128
- Description
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Drawings; six hundred and fourteen drawings on eighty-one sheets of mainly Mexican antiquities, accompanied by a twenty-six page descriptive manuscript catalogue written in French.
Graphite on paper
- Production date
- 1829-1830
- Dimensions
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Height: 55 centimetres
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Width: 43 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Other subjects in the drawings are; two Chinese figurines, cases for Egyptian mummies, a North-West Coast mask and a Mexican woman.
Most of the drawings are signed and dated 1829 or 1830.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2019-2020 22 Nov-25 May, Berlin, Deutsches Historiches Museum, Wilhelm und Alexander von Humboldt
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition notes
- Henry Christy was written on a label pasted to the original wooden box which was broken and beyond repair.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am2006,Drg.128
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Am2006-Drg128-208-Fra
