• San Augustin de las Cuevas

Creator:

• Daniel Thomas Egerton

Description:

• Hand-colored lithograph From Egerton's Views in Mexico: Being a Series of Twelve Coloured Plates London: D. T. Egerton, 1840

Curatorial Notes:

• The scene mixes rustic terrain together with the community activity: two opposite poles that the picturesque aspired to put together. Against the backdrop (mountains, big sky, blue river) hundreds in indigenous dress are depicted attending the annual festival at San Agustín de las Cuevas (then south of Mexico City). The artist spent his latter years in Mexico where he died in April 1842.

Photography:

• Princeton University Library Digital Imaging Studio

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/pg15bm27r

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical