ARCHITECTURE, RESTORATION, AND IMAGING OF THE MAYA CITIES OF UXMAL, KABAH, SAYIL, AND LABNÁ
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1862-63 Charnay & Viollet-le-Duc

All the photographs of Uxmal (there are no images of Kabah, Sayil, or Labná) included in Claude Joseph Désiré Charnay, Cités et Ruines Américaines, published in 1862-63. Charnay's photographs were mounted in Vol. 1, the lavish folio volume, published 1862. These and other photographs taken in 1859 and 1860 by Charnay are the earliest photographs of Maya ruins. The text was printed in a small accompanying volume, published 1863, which included an essay by Viollet-le-Duc, with a few diagrams reproduced below. The images on this web site were scanned from 35mm slides I have taken of the copy in the Library, Special Collections, of the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History.


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Plate 44. "Palais des Nonnes, a Uxmal". "Bas-relief of the Indian". Detail of front facade of West Building.
1859-60/1862
Plate 45. "Palais du Gouverneur, a Uxmal". "Principal facade". Left half of panorama of front facade.
1859-60/1862. This is a contrasty copy photograph mounted in the AMNH volume.
Plate 46. "Palais du Gouverneur, a Uxmal". "Principal facade". Right half of panorama of front facade.
1859-60/1862. This is a contrasty copy photograph mounted in the AMNH volume.
Plate 47. "Palais du Gouverneur, a Uxmal". "Detail of the Principal Doorway".
1859-60/1862
Plate 48. "Palais du Gouverneur, a Uxmal". In center is House of the Turtles.
1859-60/1862
Plate 49. "Vue générale des ruines, a Uxmal". Looking south past South Building of Nunnery to structures beyond.
1859-60/1862
Small text volume. "Research and photography by Désiré Charnay, with a text by M. Viollet-le-Duc."
1863
Viollet-le-Duc. Fig. 8. General plan of the ruins of Uxmal.  
1863
Viollet-le-Duc. Fig. 9.
1863
Viollet-le-Duc. Fig. 10.
1863
 
 
     
     
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