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Frederick Catherwood
Frederick Catherwood (27 February 1799 – 27 September 1854) was an English artist and architect, best remembered for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of the Maya civilization. He explored Mesoamerica in the mid 19th century with writer John Lloyd Stephens. Their books, ''Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán'' and ''Incidents of Travel in Yucatán'', were best sellers and introduced to the Western world the civilization of the ancient Maya. In 1837, Catherwood was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member.
== Mediterranean travels ==
Catherwood, having made many trips to the Mediterranean between 1824 and 1832〔von Hagen (1968, p. xiii)〕 to draw the monuments made by the Egyptians, Carthaginians, and Phoenicians, stated that the monuments in the Americas bear no architectural similarity to those in the Old World. Thus, they must have been made by the native people of the area.
Catherwood made visits to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Palestine and with Joseph Bonomi the Younger made drawings and watercolors of the ancient remains there. During a six-week period in 1833, Catherwood was probably the first Westerner to make a detailed survey of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Drawings of Islamic Buildings: Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem. )〕
Catherwood developed a sizeable reputation as a topographical artist. He perfected a drawing technique which used the ''camera lucida'' and supplied the drawings for the panoramas of Jerusalem and Thebes shown by Robert Burford in Leicester Square.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=https://www.rc.umd.edu/gallery/description-view-thebes-now-exhibiting-panorama-broadway-corner-prince-and-mercer-streets )〕
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