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Artist
- Name:
- Catherwood, Frederick
- Dates:
- 1799-1854
- Country:
- UK
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- The Getty Research Institute, the Internet Archive
- Observations:
- Drawn on stone by Andrew Picken
Book
- Title:
- Views of ancient monuments in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatan
- Author(s):
- Catherwood, Frederick
- Publisher:
- London: Frederick Catherwood, 1844
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
A lively group of people of various ages is gathered in front of a Mayan building showing elaborate architectural decoration. This portion of the building is described as follows by the author:
It forms part of an exceedingly rich and highly-decorated fafade, two hundred and sixty-four feet (80 m) long; and which, for profusion of ornament, rivals, if it does not surpass, the front of the Casa del Gobernador. […] There are, or rather were, five similar structures in the facade, and, although at a distance, they appear exactly alike—and are so, as regards general outline and size—yet the detail and making-up of the ornaments differ in each; and this observation will apply equally to the façades of nearly all the buildings at Uxmal, in which occur endless varieties in the detail of the decorations.
Keywords: 1840s, 19th century, Americas, archaeology, color, Mexico, North America, Pre-Columbian, reference book, Victorian
