Cortés's Map of Tenochtitlan

Europe's first image of the Aztec capital, printed in Nuremberg in 1524, when the island city was already in ruins.

Made by

Published with Hernán Cortés's second letter to Charles V

Date

1524

Held by

Newberry Library, Chicago (Ayer 655.51 .C8 1524d)

Medium

Hand-coloured woodcut