Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: [Palenque relief. God L]
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Accession number:
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06080
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Record number:
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06080-10
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JCB call number:
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B822 R585d / 1-SIZE
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Image title:
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[Palenque relief. God L]
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Creator 1:
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Waldeck, Frédéric de
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Creator 1 dates:
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1766-1875
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Creator 2:
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McQueen & Co.
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Creator 2 role:
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Lithog:
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Place image published:
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[London]
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Image publisher:
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[Henry Berthoud ... Suttaby, Evance and Fox]
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Image date:
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[1822]
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Image function:
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plate [10]; following p. 128
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Technique:
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lithograph
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Image dimension height:
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24.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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15.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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28.2 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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22.4 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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A native American male figure in elaborate costume, which includes a headdress partly comprised of a bird's head, stands smoking. He is surrounded by symbols.
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Source creator:
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Rio, Antonio del
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Source Title:
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Description of the ruins of an ancient city discovered near Palenque in the kingdom of Guatemala, ...
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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By Henry Berthoud, No. 65, Regent's Quadrant, Piccadilly; and Suttaby, Evance and Fox, Stationer's Court.
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Source date:
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1822
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notes:
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Antonio del Rio, an artillery captain, was sent by the Spanish crown in May of 1786 to verify persistent rumors of the site of an ancient city near Santo Domingo del Palenque and to determine the origins of its inhabitants. He suggested that the people of that city, Palenque, had been Phoenicians. He took with him Ricardo Almendáriz who made 30 drawings of what was found. Although Rio's manuscript, a report to Don Jose Estacheria (Governor and Commandant General of Guatemala), has been preserved in Madrid, Almendáriz's original drawings were just recently rediscovered in a private European collection. The original drawings had been copied and executed as line lithographs for this publication by Jean Frederic Maxmilien de Waldeck. Palenque is a Classic Maya site most vital in the 7th century A.D. It is speculated that the tower was used for astronomical observation. Image placed horizontally on page.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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References:
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Cf. Parsons, L.A. Columbus to Catherwood, figs. 33 and 41; Schele, L. and Miller, M. E. The Blood of Kings, fig. II.6, p. 114.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject Area:
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Indigenous peoples
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Subject headings:
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Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico)
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Subject headings:
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Mayas--Antiquities
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