Guatemala Collection

ALVARADO, Pedro de (1485-1541). Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. 17th c. portrait. Colonial baroque. Painting. GUATEMALA. Antigua Guatemala. Museum of Colonial Art

6a Avenida Y Parque Centenario, Guatemala City, Guatemala Date: circa 1950s

Martin de Mayorga (1721-1783). Spanish military officer, governor of the Captaincy General of Guatemala (1773-1779) and interim viceroy of New Spain (1779-1783). Colored engraving

Cattleya skinneri, English orchid
Plate 13 from Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (1837-1843) by James Bateman. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Pedro de Alvarado y Contreras (ca. 1485 or ca. 1495-1541). Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. Utatlan battle, 1524. 18th century engraving. Colored

Carved stone pillar of Mayan Calendar, Quirigua, Guatemala
Carved stone pillar or stela (known as Stela E) that recorded the Mayan Calendar, Quirigua, Izabal, Guatemala (Mesoamerica). They were erected to mark the passing of a katun (roughly 20 years)

Mayan Monolith - Quirigua - Sky Xul in Jaws of a Monster
Guatemala - Mayan Monolith - Quirigua - 8th century AD. Quirigua is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala

Pavilion of Guatemala, Paris Exhibition of 1889
Pavilion of the Republic of Guatemala, Universal Exhibition of Paris, 1889 Date: 1889

Phymosia rosea (Sphaeralcea nutans). Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe

Flamingo flower, Anthurium scherzerianum. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Trichocentrum splendidum, epiphyte orchid (Oncidium splendidum). Guatemala. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe

Laelia superbiens orchid. Guatemala. Handcoloured lithograph from Louis van Houtte and Charles Lemaires Flowers of the Gardens and Hothouses of Europe, Flore des Serres et des Jardins de l Europe

Ambiguous encyclia orchid, Encyclia ambigua (Winged epidendrum, Epidendrum alatum). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards

Native Indians, Guatemala, Central America
Native Mayan Indians (K iche), in the town of Chichicastenango (also known as Santo Tomas), Guatemala, Central America. Date: circa 1908

Pre-Columbian Art. Maya. Tikal. Stelae and the North acropolis. Its construction began in the Preclassic Period, around 350 BC. Peten Region. Guatemala

Manuel Lisandro Barillas
MANUEL LISANDRO BARILLAS (1864 - 1907) President of Guatemala 1885 - 1892. Date: circa 1900

Stela E in Quirigua, Guatemala, Guatemala
Ruins of Quirigua, an ancient Maya archaeological site in the department of Izabal in south-eastern Guatemala. The monuments at Quirigua include unusually large stelae elaborately carved from single

Stela K - Ruins of Quirigua, Guatemala
The photograph shows the west side of a carved stone stela known by archaeologists as Stela K, created during the reign of Jade Sky (early 9th century)

Galeandra baueri, orchid
Illustration from Orchidaceae of Mexico and Guatemala (1837-43) by James Bateman. Held in the Botany Library at the Natural History Museum, London

Circus troupe procession with horse-drawn carriages. circa 1900

Quetzaltenango, Guatemala - A market scene. Date: circa 1925

Stamp Card produced by Ottmar Zeihar - Guatemala. These cards enabled collectors to see stamps which they were unable to obtain, or afford

Market day, Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Central America
Market day in Chichicastenango, Guatemala, Central America, with the church of Santo Tomas in the background. The town is well known for its market days on Thursdays and Sundays. Date: circa 1920

Serapio Cruz (1835-1870). Engraving. Colored
Serapio Cruz (1835-1870). Guatemalan Caudillo. Engraving in The Spanish and American Illustration, 1870. Colored

Martin Barrundia (d. 1890). Colored engraving
Martin Barrundia (d.1890). Guatemalan general and politician. Engraving of The Spanish and American Illustration, 1890. Colored

Pre-Columbian Art. Maya. Tikal. Relief of the North Acropolis
Pre-Columbian Art. Maya.Tikal. Relief of the North Acropolis. Peten. Guatemala

Raphael Carrera
General RAPHAEL CARRERA President of the Republic of Guatemala. Date: 1814 - 1865

Palm Sunday Procession
A Palm Sunday procession through the centre of a village in Guatemala. Date: 1982

Coffee / Guatemala / Village
A village scene at a coffee plantation in Guatemala showing a man with a large back pack talking to a child playing in the street. Date: 1885

Coffee / Guatemala / 1877
A scene at a coffee plantation in Antigua, Guatemala, showing men transplanting and tending young coffee trees. Date: 1877

Guatemala - Sumpango, Sacatepequez Department
Guatemala - Indigenous Mayan Indian from Sumpango, Sacatepequez Department Date: circa 1903

Guatemala. Tikal. Maya pyramid
GUATEMALA. PETEN. Tikal. Tikal National Park. Maya Pyramid Ii at the ancient main square of Tikal. Maya art. Architecture

Guatemala. Tikal. Tikal National Park
GUATEMALA. Tikal. Tikal National Park. View of the temples I, II and IV standing out the rainforest. Maya art. Architecture

Guatemala. Tikal. Maya Art
GUATEMALA. Tikal. Tikal National Park. Gran Plaza. Temple of the Great Jaguar, Ah Cacao or Temple I. Maya art. Architecture

Guatemala. QuiriguᮠMaya Zoomorph
GUATEMALA. Quiriguᮠ Archaeological Park World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981. Zoomorph B. 780 A.D. Classic Period. Maya art. Relief on rock

Guatemala. QuiriguᮠEstela maya
GUATEMALA. Quiriguᮠ Ceremonial Square. Archaeological Park World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981. Estela F. 761 A.D. Detail. Classic Period. Maya art. Relief on rock

Opal
Fire opal in a matrix slab of alunite from Guatemala. Opals are not truely crystalline and are therefore mineraloids. They comprise of (hydrated silica glass)

GUATEMALA. Tikal. Tikal National Park. Maya art

GUATEMALA. Uaxactun. A Group. Late pre-classical

Censer. Representation of the god of sacrifice and war. Maya art. Ceramics. GUATEMALA. Tikal. National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Multicoloured glazed ceramic with representation of warrior (7th c.). Maya art. Ceramics. GUATEMALA. Tikal. National Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

Guatemala - Crab sellers
Street Crab sellers in Guatemala

Guatemala / Antigua 1885
Entrance to the church of San Francesca with people milling about outside

Guatemala / Tikal / Pyramid
Temple of the Great Jaguar from 810 in the metropolis of TIKAL surrounded by the virgin forest. the site is composed of 3000 temples, pyramids and steles of the Mayas

Mahogany, Guatemala
Felling mahogany trees in Guatemala : the enormous demand for this hard furnishing wood leads, alas, to extensive deforestation for it re-grows slowly

Guatemala Izabal
General view of the port

Guatemala Polochic
Village scene in the valley of the Polochic

Guatemala Country Road
A country road leading to Guatemala City

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