Close-up view of the Sun Stone (also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone and Cuauhxicalli [Eagle Bowl]) with reliefs, Mexico City, Mexico

People:

Désiré Charnay (photographer)

Title:

Close-up view of the Sun Stone (also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone and Cuauhxicalli [Eagle Bowl]) with reliefs, Mexico City, Mexico

Date:

published 1862

Description:

- It is probable that both photomechanical print PH1981:0997:001 and the published identical image in Davis (p. 110, fig. 13) have been printed as mirror images of the actual Sun Stone (also known as the Aztec Calendar Stone and Cuauhxicalli [Eagle Bowl]).

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 photomechanical print(s)

Technique and media:

Photolithograph from wet collodion glass plate negative

Dimensions:

comp.: 32.0 x 34.5 cm secondary support: 71.6 x 55.0 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0997:001

Point of View:

close-up view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- There are tears on the left, right, and bottom edges of the secondary support.

Inscription:

labelled, imprinted and numbered - in typescript and black ink, on a paper label attached to the secondary support, l.l.: "Charnay, photogr. Pl. 1. Gide, éditeur, Paris." / and with title stamped - in typescript and purple ink, on the secondary support, l.c.: "BIBLIOTHÈQUE / HARMANT" imprinted - in typescript and black ink, on the secondary support, l.r.: "Lithophoto. Lemercier Rue de Seine 57 Paris."

Location:

France

Subject:

sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

reliefs
figures (representations)
stone
calendar

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

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