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1844 print, showing the west facade unusually well preserved, except for partly collapsed wooden lintels and frieze above doorway.
"12. Ornament Over the Gateway of the Great Teocallis. Uxmal."
Chromolithograph in Frederick Catherwood, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 1844. Based on Catherwood’s 1839-42 on-site drawing, but for this lavish folio slightly reconstructed and glamourized. This image scanned from a 35mm slide taken from a copy in the AMNH (RF-13-K). Reproduced Courtesy of The Library Special Collections, American Museum of Natural History