Cathedral de Santo Domingo, Mexico City

Church in Mexico City

Interior, Grand Cathedral, Mexico City

Sagrario Metropolitano, Mexico City

Washburn was in Mexico for various stints between 1908 and 1913, generally staying in Mexico City or Cuernavaca. He divided his time between drypoints, painting, and serving as a War Correspondent for the Chicago Daily News.

After the Summer of 1908 spent in Maine working on Norlands Series III Washburn travelled to Mexico, arriving in Mexico City in October. He made trips to Taxco, Cordoba, Orizabo, Veracruz, Queretiro, Quadalajoria, Oaxaca and Quanajuato. It is during this period that he probably executed most of the Mexican Cathedral series.

The summer of 1909 found him back in Maine, for Norland’s Series IV, and then back to Mexico where he stayed in Cuernavaca until May of 1910 when he left on the S.S. Merida, which was wrecked in a collision. He lost his luggage, canvases, and fifty plates. All passengers and crew were rescued. He stayed the summer with his parents, painting, and then in the Fall he was back in Mexico.

He continued dividing his time between Mexico and the United States until the Spring of 1913 when, fearing deportation, he left for the United States, where he spent one more summer in Maine. The Mexico series is quite well documented, with a number of detailed exhibition catalogs to work from.

In this listing, the etchings of cathedrals, churches and their grounds are listed first, followed by the remainder of his Mexican prints of people, gardens, and landscapes.