New Mexico City Bellin Old engraving Nouveau Mexico 1756
Title: Nouveau Mexico.
Description: Mexico City, old antique copperplate engraved print in water coloring. During the Aztec period, Mexico City was initially built over a lake, the Lago de Texcoco. Aztecs built an artificial island by dumping soil into the lagoon. Later, the Spaniards erected a second Mexico City atop the ruins of Tenochtitlán.
Print maker : Jacques Nicolas Bellin (1703 – 21 March 1772) was a French hydrographer, geographer, and member of the French intellectual group called the philosophes. Bellin was born in Paris. He was hydrographer of France's hydrographic office, member of the Académie de Marine and of the Royal Society of London.
Origin : Antoine-François Prevost's "L`Histoire Generale des Voyages"
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Size: Sheet app.: 14 x 10 inches. 35.5 x 25 cm. Image app.: 10.5 x 7 inches. 26 x 17.5 cm. Condition: Fine engraving in very good overall condition.
