Category: Mexican

Mexico in 1869. Four albumen photographs of engravings laid down as plates in “Excursión a la Caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascenso al crater del Popocatepetl.” 

Caverna de Cacahuamilpa; Tramo nombrado Salon de los Monumentos. Eugenio Landesio, pinta. Mexico 1869. Albumen photograph of an engraving laid down as a plate in Excursión a la caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascenso al crater del Popocatepetl. Image © Swann Auction Galleries. Fair use license. https://catalogue.swanngalleries.com/Lots/auction-lot/-MEXICO–Eugenio-Landesio-Escursion-a-la-caverna-de-Cacahuam?saleno=2687&lotNo=310&refNo=824871
Caverna de Cacahuamilpa; Tramo nombrado Salon de los Organos: Eugenio Landesio, pinta. Mexico 1869. Plate II. Albumen photograph of an engraving laid down as a plate in Excursión a la caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascenso al crater del Popocatepetl. Biblioteca Nacional de México (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, UNAM), Biblioteca Nacional Digital de México y cosechado de Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México. In the public domain due to age. https://repositorio.unam.mx/contenidos/escursion-sic-a-la-caverna-de-cacahuamilpa-y-ascension-al-crater-del-popocatepetl-6320?c=BO72Rw&d=false&q=*:*&i=1&v=1&t=search_0&as=0
Popocatepetl. Su Crater visto des el labio S. E. Mirando Hacio N. O. Eugenio Lanedesio Pino Mexico 1869. Plate III Albumen photograph of an engraving laid down as a plate in Excursión a la caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascenso al crater del Popocatepetl. Biblioteca Nacional de México (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, UNAM), Biblioteca Nacional Digital de México y cosechado de Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México. In the public domain due to age. https://catalogo.iib.unam.mx/exlibris/aleph/a23_1/apache_media/MJSI4LEPAGF59SAYFL8CV7RYVM8PBN.pdf
El Popocatepetl; Sacado desde el Cerro de Tlamaca. Eugenio Lanedesio Pino Mexico 1869. Plate IV Albumen photograph of an engraving laid down as a plate in Excursión a la caverna de Cacahuamilpa y ascenso al crater del Popocatepetl. Biblioteca Nacional de México (Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, UNAM), Biblioteca Nacional Digital de México y cosechado de Biblioteca y Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de México. In the public domain due to age. https://catalogo.iib.unam.mx/exlibris/aleph/a23_1/apache_media/MJSI4LEPAGF59SAYFL8CV7RYVM8PBN.pdf

“Quelques vues du Mexique” and a Mexico that isn’t coming back. Views of the port of Vera Cruz, photographed between 1864 and 1867. E. Leroy, photographer. Must have gone out with Emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota because the years are the same. Collections of Gallica BnF.

Fountain – Mexico. 1864-1867. View 10, Figure 5, one of 38 albumen photographic prints in the album Quelques vues du Mexique. E. Leroy, photographer. Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF with the photographs themselves being in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432925f/f10.item
Guadalupe – Mexico. 1864-1867. Figure 8, one of 38 albumen photographic prints in the album Quelques vues du Mexique. E. Leroy, photographer. Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF with the photographs themselves being in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432925f/f13.item
Querétaro Alameda. 1864-1867. Figure 14, one of 38 albumen photographic prints in the album Quelques vues du Mexique. E. Leroy, photographer. Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF with the photographs themselves being in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432925f/f19.item#
Aguas- Calientes. 1864-1867. Figure 18, one of 38 albumen photographic prints in the album Quelques vues du Mexique. E. Leroy, photographer. Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF with the photographs themselves being in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432925f/f23.item#
Durango. 1864-1867. Figure 32, one of 38 albumen photographic prints in the album Quelques vues du Mexique. E. Leroy, photographer. Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF with the photographs themselves being in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432925f/f37.item
Guadalajara. 1864-1867. Figure 36, one of 38 albumen photographic prints in the album Quelques vues du Mexique. E. Leroy, photographer. Collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Gallica BnF with the photographs themselves being in the public domain due to age. via https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b8432925f/f41.item#

Hand-colored lithographs of anthropomorphic flowers illustrating the “values” and roles of women in 1849. Taken from “El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras,” a Mexican literary magazine that was published in Mexico City. Edited by Ignacio Cumplido. These are from one item that is up for sale on the website of Michael Laird Rare books.

Las Flores. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Bleuet and Coquilicot. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Rosa. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Camilia. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Madreselva. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Tulipan. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Nopalillo. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las
Vellosilla. 1849. Hand-colored lithograph, taken from an issue of El Album Mexicano. Periódico de literatura, artes y bellas letras. One of a group of lithographs composed by Jean Ignace Grandville (1803-1847) and drawn on stone by Charles Michel Geoffroy (1819-1882) that were originally created to illustrate Taxile Delord’s whimsical 1847 “Les Fleurs animées,” in which women take on characteristics of various flowers. Image © 2024 Michael Laird Rare Books. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.michaellaird.com/pages/books/4187/jean-ignace-ignacio-cumplido-grandville/mexican-lithography-el-album-mexicano-periodico-de-literatura-artes-y-bellas-letras-includes-las

These are from the time of the short-lived Mexican empire with Emperor Maximilian and his Empress Carlota that was in reality a project of/controlled by Napoleon III of France that ended up with Maximilian in front of a firing squad. This explains why these are published in Mexico City with the lithographs done presumably in France etc.

Landscapes of a Mexico that isn’t coming back. José María Velasco, painter. Living from 1840 to 1912, he studied at the Academy of San Carlos. Exhibited at the Paris Universal Exposition in 1889.

“Los volcanes, Valle de México,” 1905. Mexican. Oil on board. Signed “Velasco” and dated “México 1905” on the lower right. Image © 2021 Sotheby’s. Fair use license. via https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2021/impressionist-modern-art-day-sale/los-volcanes-valle-de-mexico

“Hacienda de San Antonio Coapa.” Undated. Mexican. Image source: taringa.net. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:San_Antonio_Coapa.jpg
“The Valley of Mexico (Valle de México),” 1877. Mexican. Oil on canvas. Collections of the Museo Nacional de Arte, INBA, Mexico City. Image: Steven Zucker. Cc0 License 2.0. via https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-americas/latin-america-after-independence
“Valley of Mexico seen from the Cerro de Guadalupe”. 1905. Mexican. Collections of the CDMX Government. Image source: Wikimedia Common. Cc0 License 1.0. via https://mymodernmet.com/es/jose-maria-velasco/