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INVENTORY OF VARIAS FOTOGRAFIAS ALBUM, circa
1890
2006.R.7
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Title: Varias
fotografias
Dates: circa 1890
Collection number: 2006.R.7
Extent:
168
photomechanical prints
(1 box)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Libary
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
Abstract: The album contains collotypes of Mexican
antiquities, primarily Mesoamerican ceramic or stone objects, as well as two
colonial pieces. Most of the objects were photographed while on display in the
former Museo Nacional de México. Also included are two views of the
Pyramid of the Niches at the Totonac site of El Tajin.
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Language: Collection material is in
Spanish.
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Varias fotografias album, Research Library, The Getty Research
Institute, Accession no. 2006.R.7.
Acquired in 2006.
Processed by Beth Ann Guynn
Scope and Content of Collection
The album contains collotypes of Mexican antiquities, primarily
Mesoamerican ceramic or stone objects, as well as two colonial pieces. Most of
the objects were photographed while on display in the former Museo Nacional de
México. Many of them are numbered either on the object itself or on
their bases, and a scale is often included in the image. Several objects are
represented in two or more views, either in the same image or in separate
images. Also included are two views of the Pyramid of the Niches at the Totonac
site of El Tajin.
The objects depicted include a wide array of human, god, and animal
figures (dogs, frogs, fish, jaguars, crocodiles, snakes, tigers, etc.), as well
as relief sculptures and musical instruments. Captions indicate that the
objects came from Veracruz, Santiago Tlatelolco, Tula, Oaxaca, Puebla,
Tehuantepec, and Texcoco, and that they represent the Aztec, Zapotec, Toltec,
and Tlaxcalan cultures.
Museo Nacional de
México
Aztec
sculpture—Mexico
Totonac
architecture
Mexico—Description
and travel
Oaxaca
(Mexico)—Antiquities
Puebla
(Mexico)—Antiquities
Tajin Site
(Mexico)
Tehuantepec, Isthmus of
(Mexico)—Antiquities
Texcoco de Mora
(Mexico)—Antiquities
Tlateloco
(Mexico)—Antiquities
Tlaxcala (Mexico :
State)—Antiquities
Tula de Allende
(Mexico)—Antiquities
Veracruz-Llave (Mexico :
State)—Antiquities
Collotypes—Mexico—19th century
Photolithographs—Mexico—19th
century
Photomechanical
prints—Mexico—19th century
Photographs,
Original
Briquet, Abel
Leon, Emilio
de