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Last Name Catherwood

Given Name Frederick

alt. Names F. C. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1799 in London

Year died 1854

Place of death on board a ship from Liverpool to the USA

Father's occupation

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Education

Country of Activity Mexico

Worked for more than 120 engr. f. John L. Stephens: Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, New York 1843; F.C.: Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas & Yucatan. New York 1844

Patronage

Collaborators w. engr. -> H. Gimber

Techniques archaeological & ethnological drawing & lithography

Sample(s) http://vrc.niu.edu/maya/history-culture.html ; http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:CopanNSouthCatherwood.jpg

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Published sources G.E.Bodmer in Thomas Henry Huxley's Place in Science, 1997:293; Victor Wolfgang von Hagen: Search for Maya. The story of Stephens & Catherwood, London 1947; Fabio Bourbon: Die Mayas, auf den Spuren einer versunkenen Kultur, Lithographien v.F.C., Erlangen, 1999; Joanne Pillsbury: Past presented. Archaeological Illustration & the Ancient Americas, (Washington, D.C. 2012): 16, 20f.;

other Architect, painter, archaeologist & explorer, specializing on Maya culture, active in what today is Mexico, Guatemala & Belice

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