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COSTUMES 



DELINEATED BY THE 



MEXICAN PAINTERS IN THE TIME OF 

 MONTEZUMA. 



PLATE XIV. 



These nine figures are taken from the Codex 

 AnonymuSy No. 3738, preserved among the 

 manuscripts of the Vatican, which we have had 

 occasion to cite several times. They are copies 

 of pictures made by Mexican painters at the 

 time of the first abode of Cortez at Tenoch- 

 titlan. P. Rios, in tracing the drawings, ap- 

 pears to have been more attentive to the parti- 

 culars of the dresses, than to a faithful imitation 

 of the outlines. On comparing the paintings of 

 Plate fourteenth with those contained in the 

 original manuscripts that have reached us, we 

 see, that the figures copied by the Spanish 

 monk are somewhat too much lengthened. 

 These alterations of form are every where found, 

 when the artists have not been sufficiently im~ 



