Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)

Désiré Charnayc. 1860

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Title: Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)
Creator: Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (French, 1828-1915)
Date Created: c. 1860
Physical Dimensions: Image: 27 x 39.8 cm (10 5/8 x 15 11/16 in.); Paper: 30.4 x 42.5 cm (11 15/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Provenance: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Photograph
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.41
Medium: albumen print from collodion negative
Inscriptions: Imprinted in paper label adhered to recto, lower left: "Charnay, photogr. Pl. 41. Gide, éditeur, Paris./PALAIS DES NONNES, A UXMAL/Détail de la Façade de la Couleuvre"
Department: Photography
Culture: France
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Collection: PH - French 19th Century
Accession Number: 2021.41

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