'A puritan resting': an elderly man sleeping in a chair accompanied by his dog

Antonio Orellana|Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico City|Carlos Alvarado Lang

1860 (reprinted 1938) · Engraving · Drawings and Prints

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'.

Artist

Antonio Orellana|Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico City|Carlos Alvarado Lang

Date

1860 (reprinted 1938)

Medium

Engraving

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946