Colección de las antigüedades mexicanas que ecsisten en el Museo Nacional
A Spanish-language plate collection published in Mexico in 1827 by the Museo Nacional de México, documenting its holdings of pre-Hispanic Mexican antiquities for scholars and museum readers. Its engraved plates show carved stone figures and heads, a long relief band with rows of figures, a round carved disc set on a tripod-like base, and a page of glyph-like figures in boxes, drawn in fine monochrome line with plain grey tones. A designer could draw on the precise hatching and the stone-relief textures for ancient or archaeological motifs, and on the Mesoamerican circular calendar-style ornament.
