St Paul standing within an elaborately carved altar

Publisher Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico City Mexican

ca. 1860–1880 [reprinted 1938]

Not on view

This plate is from a portfolio of 24 nineteenth century prints re-printed in 1938 by Carlos Alvarado Lang (professor of printmaking, Mexico University) (see 46.46.452). The plates then existed and presumably still do in the Archivo de la Escuela de Artes Plásticas. Each print is accompanied by a sheet of tissue paper on which is printed details about it. The portfolio contains a 15 page brochure that has a prologue by Manuel Toussaint, a text regarding printmaking and the Academia of San Carlos during the nineteenth century by Justino Fernandez, bibliography and a list of the prints. 250 portfolios were printed of which this is number 181. The prints and printed material are housed in the original pink cloth portfolio that is stamped with the title 'Grabados Mexicanos del Siglo XIX'.

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Provenance

Title: St Paul standing within an elaborately carved altar
Printmaker: Anonymous, Mexican
Printer: Carlos Alvarado Lang (Mexican, La Piedad de Cabadas 1905–1961 Mexico City)
Publisher: Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico City (Mexico)
Date: ca. 1860–1880 [reprinted 1938]
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 17 5/16 × 12 13/16 in. (44 × 32.5 cm)
Image: 5 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (13.3 × 7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
Object Number: 46.46.452(23)
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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