Environs of City of Guatemala
Eadweard J. Muybridge
American, born England. 1830–1904
1875
A panoramic albumen silver–print photograph by Eadweard Muybridge that documents the rural outskirts of Guatemala City, recording fields, walls, and scattered homesteads as a topographical view.
Your eye follows the pale, winding wall across patchwork fields and clumps of vegetation toward low, layered hills and a distant silhouette of mountains beneath a soft, overcast sky.
Made in 1875, it exemplifies how 19th‑century photography was used to document distant landscapes for scientific, commercial, and metropolitan audiences, helping to establish the medium’s authority as a tool of observation and record.
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
5 5/16 × 9 3/16" (13.5 × 23.4 cm)
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Credit
Transferred from The Museum of Modern Art Library, New York
Accession
182.1964.36
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