Catherwood, Frederick, 1799-1854 Culture Maya Biographical Note Frederick Catherwood (1799–1854) was an English artist and architect known for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of the ...

Explorations by Messrs. Stephens and Catherwood. WORK FOR ARCHAEOLOGISTS; THE HIDDEN MYSTERIES OF GUATEMALA AND YUCATAN. A RICH FIELD THAT OUGHT TO BE EXPLORED--THE STEPHENS AND CATHERWOOD ...

Stephens and Catherwood paved the way for a lucrative tourist trade in Tulum, which has made the site a place for displays of acrobatics and boat tours, with thousands of people flocking to the site ...

When John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood journeyed to Uxmal in 1840, the indigenous people told them the legend of the House of the Dwarf. As related by Stephens, an old woman hatched a dwarf son ...

The printed daguerreotypes were destroyed in the same fire that took their artifacts in 1842. Catherwood’s lithographs thereafter were the only record of many Maya sites, buildings, and artifacts.

Journalist Carlsen travels through Mexico, Guatemala, and Honduras, tracing the footsteps of Frederick Catherwood and John Lloyd Stephens, the amateur archaeologists whose 1839 expedition offered ...

In 1830s Soho there was a 10,000 sq ft rotunda that showed illuminated panorama paintings showing views of Jersualem, Niagara Falls and other exotic places.