A naked young man standing, his left hand leaning on a block, holding a statue of Victory in his right

Miguel Portillo|Carlos Alvarado Lang|Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico City

1860s (reprinted 1938) · Etching · 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

Miguel Portillo|Carlos Alvarado Lang|Imprenta Universitaria, Mexico City

Date

1860s (reprinted 1938)

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946