[Map of the ruins at Palenque, Mexico]. [ca. 1832]

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[Map of the ruins at Palenque, Mexico]. [ca. 1832]

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One of two ms. maps of Palenque by Frédéric de Waldeck, who led an expedition to the ruins between 1832 and 1834. This smaller version is less finished and includes a continuation inset, a mostly blank cartouche, and survey notes in the right margin.

1 ms. map ; 306 x 308 mm., on sheet 308 x 490 mm.

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Waldeck, Frédéric ˜deœ 1766-1875

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French traveller, artist, engraver, and Americanist. Waldeck, of German or Austrian origin, may have been born in Prague, Paris, or Vienna, in 1766. He travelled to Mexico in 1825 to work for a silver mining company, and later lived in Mexico City where he gave classes in painting and drawing. Throughout his travels in Mexico, he made drawings of the Indian antiquities and ruins, especially in Palenque and Uxmal between 1832 and 1835, and in 1837, back in Paris, where he...