Frederick Catherwood’s Lithographs of Maya Art
/I enjoyed browsing 2 publications available via Internet Archive by John L. Stephens with Frederick Catherwood engravings earlier this year. When they were published in the mid1800s, these publications were best sellers and introduced the ancient Maya to the rest of the world. The Wikipedia entry for Catherwood indicates that he died in 1854 when the ship he was on from Liverpool to New York sank after colliding with another ship. He was 55 years old.
Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan V1 and Incidents Of Travel In Central America, Chiapas, And Yucatan V2 from 1841
Incidents of travel in Yucatan V1 and Incidents of travel in Yucatan V2 from 1856 (first published in 1843)
Another resource for Catherwood lithographs is an online exhibit created in the fall of 2005 with interpretive text by students of a Smith College seminar (“Making Sense of the Pre-Columbian”) for 25 lithographs.
