View of Mexico City from the Western tower of the Catedral de México showing the Iglesia de la Casa Profesa and the Church of the Convento de San Francisco on the left and the portico of the Teatro Nacional, with Aquillero Alley in the foreground, Mexico

People:

Abel Briquet (photographer)
Pedro de Arrieta (architect)
José de los Santos (architect)
Lorenzo de la Hidalga (architect)
Feliciano Cabello (role unspecified)

Title:

Date:

between 1876 and 1881

Description:

- The point of view of this photograph looks west.

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver print

Dimensions:

comp.: 18.9 x 24.8 cm sheet: 19.5 x 24.8 cm

Reference number:

PH1985:1011

Point of View:

exterior view

Inscription:

labelled and imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the sheet, l.l.: with title stamped - in typescript in red ink, l.r.: "A. Briquet, Phot." inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: [illeg.; crossed out] inscribed and numbered - by an unknown hand, in graphite, verso, l.r.: "# 1."

Location:

France

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

monastery
portico
domes
city
towers (building divisions)
streets
church towers
churches
mountains
alley
theatre
roof-tops

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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