Old Aqueduct at Querétaro, Mexico
about 1886
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 42.9 × 54.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-448084
Juxtaposing one engineering feat with another, William Henry Jackson made this photograph of a railroad engine passing beneath an arch of an aqueduct, sixty-nine feet high. The aqueduct, which provides water for the city of Querétaro in central Mexico, was built between 1726 and 1738, but the railroad did not arrive there until a hundred and fifty years later, in 1886. A close study of the image reveals a porter standing in the open doorway of the first car and a number of youthful passengers leaning out the windows of the rear car. In any city, the arrival of the railroad was invariably a cause for celebration; Jackson's photograph commemorates the introduction of this new method of transportation in the context of an earlier achievement.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1886 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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