New Spain fleet leaving Veracruz for Cadiz.
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Image of the Contracting House, the institution in charge of managing trade affairs with the New World during the Modern Age
Maps and plans. The image depicts a portulan chart covering the Mediterranean and the European Atlantic.
Mainland Galleons of the Carrera de Indias
Image of a five-panelled folding screen depicting the Palace of the Viceroys in Mexico before it burned down in the turmoil of 1692.
Image representing the retinue formed by the emperor Montezuma and his nobles, organised to meet Hernán Cortés and receive him on his entry into the city of Mexico-Tenochtitlán.
Representation of women’s activities in the world of work and economy through the brush of Marinus van Reymerswale
The play depicts one of the female activities in the world of work and economics around market sales in the Modern Age
Privateering patent granted by Charles III, which is part of a set of several patents he granted around 1771. The upper part shows the side view of a ship which, together with the border headed by the Royal Arms, serves as ornamentation for these patents. The patent was engraved by Hipólito Recarte.
The image shows the layout of one of the twelve reverberatory furnaces for quicksilver metallurgy that were built in the Calle de Santa Ana of the Real de minas de Azogue de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in New Spain. These furnaces were made on the outside of brick and lime, to resist water, and on the inside of brick and clay, to preserve the fire. The picture explains how they worked.
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