Map of Mexico city

Title on object: Planta y sitio dela Ciudad Mexico

This map which comes with an extensive legend shows the City of Mexico. Vingboons based this map on a Spanish original, which was the result of a 1628 survey performed by the architect Juan Gómez de Trasmonte, who worked in Mexico.

Also see Carte di Castello 52. Other copies from the Vingboons workshop are Nationaal Archief VELH0619.78; Bibliothèque Nationale de France p188371; Vatican Library Reg. Lat 2105, fol. 60r; Österreichische Nationalbibliothek: Van der Hem 44:11. (The latter two are available through the online collection of the institution itself.)

Part of the Carte di Castello, collected by Cosimo de Medici III in 1667 and 1669 during his tours through Europe. Cosimo III bought the 66 watercolours by Vingboons in December 1667 in Amsterdam, through mediation of Pieter Blaeu.