Print in Honor of Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta, Archbishop of Mexico and Viceroy of New Spain

Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Print on silk in honor of Juan Antonio Vizarrón y Eguiarreta (1682-1747), Archbishop of Mexico (r. 1730-1747) and 38th Viceroy of New Spain (r. 1734-1740). His coat of arms appears in the upper centre left those in the upper centre right belong of the Archbishopric of Mexico. Central panel set within a frame of repeating motifs comprising heads in a half circular frame, on the outer edge another decorative printed frame comprising a small child in repeating lunettes. Within the border are other motifs (vase and basket) printed in gold.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.

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