Colonial School. Mexico. 18th century. "Egyptian Sybil" Oil on canvas. 64 x 49 cm. Depictions of sybils spread widely throughout New Spain between the 17th and 18th centuries. There is a complete series at the Museo Nacional del Virreinato de Mexico as well as at the church of Saint Peter González Telmo in Buenos Aires. The aesthetic of the indigenous world in Latin America was applied to the European prints of sybils and the result was far more colourist paintings, with the sybils wearing traditional Mexican dress and wearing local jewels, as in this case in which the sybil wears a coral necklace.