print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1879,1213.307
- Title
- Object: Motzuma, Roy de Mexique
- Description
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Portrait of Moctezuma, half-length, turned to the right, looking at the viewer, wearing feathered crown, holding spear in his right hand, his left hand pointing to a feathered shield on the left; illustration from André Thevet's "Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres" (Paris, 1584).
Engraving, letterpress below and on verso
- Production date
- 1584
- Dimensions
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Height: 173 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 144 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Les vrais pourtraits et vies des hommes illustres (Paris, 1584)
- Acquisition date
- 1879
- Acquisition notes
- 1879,1213.92 to 315 is a set of the portraits illustrating Thevet's 'Vies des Hommes Illustres' of 1584.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1879,1213.307