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He lived in what the art historian Esther Pasztory describes as the second great age of exploration, one concerned with “conquest through knowledge of the world”, rather than the old-fashioned military kind. Waldeck saw an opportunity to make money through drawings. Around a century later – at the advanced age of fifty-nine – Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck travelled to Mexico from London with similar financial motives. The ancient city – abandoned some time after 800 AD – was subsumed by jungle, which, it was not unreasonably hoped, might hide lost Mayan gold as well as palatial ruins. In the eighteenth century, Spanish colonists had “rediscovered” Palenque. Knowing him as I think I do now, I think this fact would have wounded him immeasurably. Tens of thousands of tourists visit Palenque each year, many from English-speaking countries, and the ubiquity of the guide in which I read the above makes it safe to assume that plenty of others will have had made a similar acquaintance with the “crazy Count”. Later, I read, he published “a book of fanciful neoclassical drawings that made the city resemble a great Mediterranean civilisation”, a crime for which he has since been condemned as a pioneer of the pseudohistory known as Mayanism. While there he drew the Mayan ruins for posterity and was among the first Europeans to do so.
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There, in a guide book, I read that from 1831 to 1833 an old European aristocrat, “crazy Count de Waldeck”, lived on top of a ruined pyramid, now known as Templo de Conde, or “Temple of the Count”, with two Mayan brides. I first encountered the Count de Waldeck at the ancient Mayan ruins of Palenque. Rhys Griffiths looks at the life and work of one of the 19th century’s most mysterious and eccentric figures. Not a lot concerning the artist, erotic publisher, explorer, and general enigma Count de Waldeck can be taken at face value, and this certainly includes his fanciful representations of ancient Mesoamerican culture which - despite the exquisite brilliance of their execution - run wild with anatopistic lions, elephants, and suspicious architecture. Note the lions, not known for their presence in the pre-Columbian Americas / National Library of France Palenqué et autres ruines de l’ancienne civilisation du Mexique (1866). Engraving by Jean-Frédéric de Waldeck, featured in Monuments anciens du Mexique.