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His most important project was México y Sus Alrededores (Mexico and its Environs), published in Mexico in 1855, which included 42 plates of Mexico City and surroundings, with contributions from J. Campillo. The plates included aerial views drawn from balloons and rooftops. The work was given to
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Casimiro, son of Cristóval Castro and Mariana Feliciana Blancas, was born shortly after Mexico acquired its independence and experienced a period of political and social upheaval marked by wars, foreign invasions and conflicts. His work is a graphic documentation of this important phase in the
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After his trip to Europe, Castro made prints of locations in Italy and Spain. He produced architectural drawings and prints of Mexican towns and interior designs, as well as posters for fairs and fashion houses, many of these showing
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containing 25 chromolithographic plates, with Antonio García Cubas writing the text. The work was intended to commemorate the inauguration of the first railway line that ran from the Gulf coast port of
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Castro's work records the changes in fashions in Mexico from republican austerity through the
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Mexicans in a rural scene outside Mexico City (1855)
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Tepetlaoztoc
Mexico City, Mexico
Academy of San Carlos


Tepetlaoxtoc
Mexico City
Academy of San Carlos
Pietro Gualdi
Claudio Linati Prevost
Agustín de Iturbide
Maximilian I of Mexico
Industrial Revolution
Veracruz
Mexico City
Art Nouveau
America Exotica
George Glazer Gallery
Biography
Archived
Wayback Machine
"J. Campillo"
Barry Lawrence Ruderman Antique Maps
Royce Editores
Brief biography
Categories
Mexican landscape painters
Mexican engravers
Mexican printmakers

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