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Front (East) Facade
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1843. Front (south-east) facade of Governor's Palace and Platform, from the road south to San Simón.
Scanned from foldout print in Stephens, Incidents of Travel
in Yucatan, 1843, closely based on Catherwood’s 1841-42
on-site drawing. |
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Front (south-east) facade of Governor's Palace, from Pyramid of the Old Woman.
200mm lens, composite panorama |
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2003. South end and front (east)
facade (cf. 1862 photos at right and 1946 reconstruction drawing
below).
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens) |
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1859-60/1862; later copy photograph. Left side of panorama of front facade.
Taken by Desiré Charnay 1859-60, mounted in the folio volume of Cités et ruines américaines, Vol. 1, Paris, 1862. Scanned from a 35mm slide taken of the contrasty copy photograph in the volume at the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History. |
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1859-60/1862; later copy photograph. Right side of panorama of front facade.
Taken by Desiré Charnay 1859-60, mounted in the folio volume of Cités et ruines américaines, Vol. 1, Paris, 1862. Scanned from a 35mm slide taken of the contrasty copy photograph in the volume at the AMNH (RF-106-D). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library, Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History. |
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1946. Reconstruction drawing of Governor's Palace and Governor's Palace Platform, showing it rising in 4 stages, each with curver corner stones.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed (Peabody 50-63-20/18496). Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. |
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Detail of watercolor drawing at left.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. |
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Detail of watercolor drawing at far left.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. |
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