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Self portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz – Vintage Wall Art

Self portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Self portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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This rare historic photograph captures Self portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Self portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

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This photographic print reproduces a painting that presents itself as a self-portrait of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the 17th-century Mexican nun, poet, and scholar who lived and wrote at the convent of San Jerónimo in Mexico City. Her wide learning and her poems and prose made her one of the most celebrated writers of colonial New Spain, and a painted likeness of her would have carried weight in that world. The caption card does not record a date for the print, and the attribution of the original canvas to her hand is traditional rather than firmly documented. Viewers interested in the image may want to compare it with other portraits of the poet and with the scholarship on colonial Mexican painting.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint of oil on canvas painting. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,500 × 1,975 px · prints to 5 × 7 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-152295

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