Picturesque and archaeological journey through Mexico, by Carl Nebel 1836.

Mexico by Carl Nebel 1836

Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Mexique by Carl Nebel 1836. Lithograph by Frédéric Lehnert.

Picturesque and archaeological journey through the most interesting part of Mexico by Carl Nebel 1836.

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Source: Viaje pintoresco y arqueolójico sobre la parte más interesante de la República Mejicana, en los años transcurridos desde 1829 hasta 1834 por el arquitecto Don Carlos Nebel. Paris; Méjico: [Impr. de P. Renouard] 1840.

Carl Nebel (also Carlos Nebel; March 18, 1805 in Altona; † June 4, 1855) was a German engineer, architect and artist. He became famous for his depictions of the Mexican-American War and his precise pictures of Mexican landscapes.

Nebel was born in Altona, studied in Hamburg and Paris and then went to America for a few years. From 1829 to 1834 he lived in Mexico. In 1836 he published an illustrated description of this country in Paris, Voyage pittoresque et archéologique dans la partie la plus intéressante du Méxique, which was illustrated with 50 lithographs after his paintings. Twenty of these prints were hand-coloured and Alexander von Humboldt wrote the preface to the work.

In 1851 George Wilkins Kendall used twelve color prints after paintings by Nebel in his History of the Mexican-American War, The War between the United States and Mexico Illustrated. The prints were made by Adolphe Jean-Baptiste Bayot, the printing was done by Joseph Mercier, leading specialists of the time.

Continuing

El Hacendero et son majordome, by Carl Nebel 1834

Las Tortilleras. Costumes from the villages in the south of Puebla, Mexico.

Mexican Rancheros wearing sombreros by Carl Nebel.

The War Between the United States and Mexico by George Wilkins Kendall.

Habitants de Tierra Caliente. People from Tierra Caliente Mexico.

The charro. The mounted cattle herder of Mexico. The Spanish vaquero.

Mexican feather head-dresses and the mode of wearing them.

Las Tortilleras. Costumes from the villages in the south of Puebla, Mexico.

Mexican China Poblana dance costume

THE story of Catalina de Erauso. The fighting nun.

A Zapotec woman of South Mexico

Traditional Mexican costumes 1850s.

Indigenous of Chapultepec. Around Mexico City 1840.

Costumes of Mexican Actec at the time of Hernán Cortés.