Aztec materials, Notes on Mexican Antiquities
Culture:
Language: Spanish
Date: 1785-1806?
Contributor: Unknown
Subject: Mexico--History | Antiquities | Art | Yucatán (Mexico : State)--History
Type: Still Image | Text
Extent: 18 pages
Description: One of various items related to the Dupaix expeditions of 1806 (totaling four loose notebooks with 23 ink and pencil sketches of Mexican ruins and hieroglyphics featuring fragmented text, in Spanish, with images of construction and decoration on stonework, pottery and buildings of various native ruins of the Yucatan). This item, "Varios modas de pintar. Y por geroglificos en el fresco y al temple," is a brief discussion of coloring techniques with some mention of figures used.
Collection: Notes on Mexican Antiquities Mss.913.72.N84