Print dedicated to Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain

Dedicatee Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta Spanish
Publisher José Bernardo de Hogal Spanish/Mexican

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Prints on silk were luxury objects meant to be preserved; the wider printmaking practice in New Spain (Mexico) mainly involved smaller religious images on paper, few of which have survived. The Latin text at center here praises the qualities of a religious and political figure, Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta (1682–1740). Born in Cádiz, Spain, and educated in Rome, Vizarrón traveled to Mexico in 1731 and served as the archbishop and, as of 1734, viceroy of New Spain.



Los grabados impresos en seda eran objetos de lujo creados para ser conservados. Mucho más común en la gráfica de Nueva España (México) era la producción de imágenes religiosas de menor tamaño sobre papel, de las que han sobrevivido pocos ejemplares. El texto en latín visible en el centro alaba las cualidades de una figura política y religiosa, Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta (1682-1740). Vizarrón, nacido en Cádiz (España) y educado en Roma, viajó a México en 1731. Fue arzobispo y, a partir de 1734, virrey de Nueva España.

Print dedicated to Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain, Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta (Spanish, 1682, Spain–1747, Mexico City), Woodcut printed on pink silk with a red border

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