Sketchbook, [between 1825 and 1852].

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Sketchbook, [between 1825 and 1852].

Sketchbook, probably begun by Waldeck in 1825 while travelling in Mexico, and continued through 1852, after he had returned to Europe, containing drawings of Indian ruins, antiquities, and other sites in central Mexico.

[36] leaves, bound : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 24 x 31 cm.

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

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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...