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Dovecote Group


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1844. Looking from front of Nunnery Quadrangle to (left to right) Governor's Palace, House of the Turtles, Great Pyramid, South Temple, and Dovecote Group.
Published in Catherwood, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 1844 (Pl. XIII); closely based on Catherwood’s 1839-42 on-site drawings.
Detail of print at left; Dovecote in center toward right.
Published in Catherwood, Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan, 1844; closely based on Catherwood’s 1839-42 on-site drawings.
1923. North face of Dovecote (same as in other images on top 3 rows on this page), central vaulted archway at extreme right in photo.
Scanned from slide of original photograph taken Feb. 1923 by Marshall H. Saville; reproduced Courtesy of The Division of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History.
1946. Hypothetical reconstuction drawing; looking south along South Acropolis, past Dovecoat Group to South Temple.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed (Peabody 50-63-20/18495). Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Detail of drawing at left.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Detail of drawing at far-left.
Watercolor reconstruction drawing by Tatiana Proskouriakoff, 1946. Scanned from a 35mm slide I have taken of the original watercolor drawing, yellow discoloration removed. Reproduced Courtesy of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
Looking southwest, showing form of grand staircase.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
North front with facade almost entirely collapsed; grand staircase leading upward to central vaulted passageway.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
Looking southeast, showing form of grand staircase.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
1895. "Middle Portion of House of the Pigeons" (south side).
Photograph published in Holmes, Archaeological Studies among the Ancient Cities of Mexico, 1895.
Looking north along axis of Acropolis to south side of House of the Pigeons.
Jan. 2003 (24mm lens)
South side of House of the Pigeons, the facade of the rooms and vaulted passageway collapsed.
Jan. 2001
 

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