Royal Seal folding screen. Detail. The transfer of the royal seal. The city celebrates the transfer of the Royal seal (symbolic representation of the monarch in the American territories of the Spanish Empire) with different festivities. Viceroyalty of New Spain. Mexico. 17th century. Oil on canvas and gilded and polychrome plaster. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain.

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Size: 4370px × 2938px
Photo credit: © Prisma Archivo / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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