The Nunnery, Uxmal

Inscriptions

Written in ink on verso: "T.C. Bigelow / Western Court Facade / Called the 'Serpent Temple' "

(Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc., New York, NY) June 3, 1996: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.

Artist: Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay (French, 1828–1915)
Date: 1860
Medium: albumen print from wet collodion negative
Dimensions: Image: 40.5 x 27 cm (15 15/16 x 10 5/8 in.); Matted: 66 x 55.9 cm (26 x 22 in.)
Type: Photograph
Classification: Photograph
Department: Photography
Credit line: John L. Severance Fund
Accession no.: 1996.241

Palais Du Cirque à Chichen-Itza, Intérieur d'une salle
Désiré Charnay
1859 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00007942
Uxmal, Indian Bas Relief, Nun's Palace (Uxmal, Bas Relief de l'Indien, Palais des Nonnes), plate 44 from the album "Cités et Ruines Américaines, Gide Paris" (1863)
Désiré Charnay
1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00008821
Palace of the Nuns at Uxmal (detail from the façade of the snake)
Désiré Charnay
c. 1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013256
Palace of the Circus at Chicen-Itza (bas relief of tigers)
Désiré Charnay
c. 1860 · Photograph
Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013305