Title(s)

The pyramid of Cholula

Object type

• photograph
• page

Object number

RP-F-2001-7-696-10

Inscriptions / marks

• inscription: ‘West side, as Humboldt saw it about 1803.’

Artist

• photographer: anonymous
• after print by: Humboldt (mentioned on object)

Place

Mexico

Dating

c. 1870 - in or before 1880

Material

• photographic support

Technique

albumen print

Measurements

height 92 mm × width 151 mm

What

• quadrangular pyramid
• church (exterior)

Where

• Grote Piramide van Cholula
• Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de los Remedios

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

Is part of

• A trip to Mexico, being notes of a journey from Lake Erie to Lake Tezcuco and back (RP-F-2001-7-696)