Study of a Mayan Monument
Frederick Catherwood, 1799-1854
ca. 1842.
Pencil and brown wash drawing on paper.
39 x 32 cm. (15 3/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Sale item is a digital photographic reproduction

John Lloyd Stephens, the outgoing American writer, and Frederick Catherwood, a quiet English artist, were the first explorers to accurately describe and illustrate the art of the pre-Hispanic Maya of Mexico and Central America. Catherwood, with John Lloyd Stephens, traveled to Central American from October 1839 through July 1840 and again from the autumn of 1841 through June 1842. Catherwood completed this work (part of a survey of Mayan civilization) during the second expedition when he visited Kabah. The expeditions fruit included two books, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and the Yucatan (1841) and Incidents of Travel in the Yucatan (1843). Catherwood also published a smaller work in 1844, Views of Ancient Monuments of Central America, Chiapas, and the Yucatan. Many of the original drawings from the expeditions were destroyed in a fire on July, 1842.

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