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Frederick Catherwood
English, 1799–1854
Frederick Catherwood was an English British Romanticism artist. 6 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum. Frederick Catherwood was born in Hackney.
Frederick Catherwood was an English artist, architect and explorer, best remembered for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of the Maya civilization. He explored Mesoamerica in the mid 19th century with writer John Lloyd Stephens. Their books, Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán and Incidents of Travel in Yucatán, were best sellers and introduced to the Western world the civilization of the ancient Maya. In 1837, Catherwood was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member.
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