Saturday, March 29, 2008

Mexico and Environs

Antigüedades mexicanas
Mexican antiquities, which exist in the National Museum of Mexico, 1857.



Catedral de Mexico
Cathedral of Mexico



Interior de la Catedral de México

Inside the Cathedral of Mexico
(in April 1855 during the celebration of the Immaculate Conception of Mary)



La Fuente del Santo del Agua
The Cascading Fountain



Plaza de Morelos
Morelos Square, formerly Guardiola Square



El Saghario de Mexico
Principal parish church



Casa Municipal

Municipal House or Deputation (?)



El Pueblo de Ixtacalco
The village of Ixtacalco



Plaza de armas de México
Public Square of Mexico



La Villa de Guadelupe
The town of Guadalupe, taken from a balloon



Trajes mexicanos b
Mexican costumes



Trajes mexicanos
Mexican costumes



Trajes mexicanos a
Mexican costumes



Frontispieces
Frontispieces from the 1869 and 1855 editions


The album of chromolithographs, 'México y sus Alrededores' (Mexico and Environs), is online at NYPL. The principal lithographer/artist for the project was Casimiro Castro, one of Mexico's foremost landscape artists in the nineteenth century. The forty illustrations were originally published in 1855-1856 [available at Biblioteca Virtual Miguel de Cervantes (click 'leer'), which includes the text]. The version at NYPL was published in 1869.

Speaking of NYPL, check out the newly designed Digital Gallery, announced as a 'soft launch' last week.

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