Partie du Mexique (Part of Mexico)
Artist
Philippe Vandermaelen
(Belgian, 1795 - 1869)
Date1827
Mediumink on paper
Dimensions21 x 28 7/8 in. (53.3 x 73.3 cm)
ClassificationsDocumentary Artifact
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, museum purchase, 1979 General Obligation Bonds
Object numberPC1981.155.3
DescriptionThis map of New Mexico has the Rio Grande Valley at the center. Native American tribal areas are also marked. Penciled writing has been erased from the front bottom right, but borders are highlighted with green and orange. The signature and date are at the bottom right corner of the back. Four years after Mexican independence French mapmaker Philippe Vandermaelen drew this chart of New Mexico, Spanish Louisiana (west Texas), and part of the state of Durango.On View
Not on viewTerms
Gio. Ma. Capini Fom. Inc.
1798
