Title(s)

A trip to Mexico, being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back (title on object)

Object type

• book

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-696

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘Prize Hor awarded to H. Lewis The Bwestry Academy Christmas Examination 1882’

Artist

• Henry Corry Rowley Becher (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Willing and Williamson (mentioned on object)

Place

Toronto (Ontario)

Dating

1880

Material

• paper
• linen (material)
• cardboard
• photographic support

Technique

printing / albumen print

Measurements

height 200 mm × width 134 mm × thickness 31 mm

Credit line

• Purchased with the support of the Mondriaan Stichting, the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds, the VSBfonds, the Paul Huf Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds and the Egbert Kunstfonds

Acquisition

purchase 2001

Copyright

Public domain

Parts

• The Aztec calendar stone (RP-F-2001-7-696-1)
• Railway-Vera Cruz to Mexico (RP-F-2001-7-696-2)
• Terra cotta heads, from the pyramids of San Juan Teotihuacan (RP-F-2001-7-696-3)
• The volcano of Iztaccihuatl (RP-F-2001-7-696-4)
• Plaza de Arma, City of Mexico (RP-F-2001-7-696-5)
• Guadelupe, Mexico (RP-F-2001-7-696-6)
• Chapultepec, Mexico (RP-F-2001-7-696-7)
• The volcano of Popocatapetl (RP-F-2001-7-696-8)
• The pyramid of Cholula as it is (RP-F-2001-7-696-9)
• The pyramid of Cholula (RP-F-2001-7-696-10)
• The tower of the palace, Palenque (RP-F-2001-7-696-11)
• The palace of the governor, Uxmal (RP-F-2001-7-696-12)
• A part of the palace of the nuns, Uxmal (RP-F-2001-7-696-13)