Sep 28, 2023 - Sale 2646

Sale 2646 - Lot 326

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(MEXICAN IMPRINT--1807.) Francisco Gordillo; artist. Ligerísimo bosquejo de la vida de Francisco. Illustrated broadside, 12 x 8 1/4 inches; uncut, minor wear, portrait printed slightly off register. Sleeved in modern marbled boards. Mexico, 1807
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Tells the story of Italian Jesuit Francesco de Geronimo (1642-1716). The portrait was executed by Francisco Gordillo, also the chief assayer of the Mexico City mint. This broadside was produced the year following Francesco's beatification in 1806; he was later canonized as a saint in 1839. One other traced at auction, in Swann's Mathes sale, 6 November 2014, lot 435.