Description of a view of the city of Mexico, and surrounding country : now exhibiting in the Panorama, Leicester-Square ; painted by the proprietors, J. and R. Burford, from drawings taken in the summer of 1823, brought to this country, by Mr. W. Bullock
A descriptive booklet printed in London in 1825 by Robert Burford to accompany his panorama of Mexico City shown at Leicester Square, for visitors viewing the painted panorama. The two wide sepia views show the city spread across a flat plain with domes, churches, long colonnaded streets and a bullring-like arena in the foreground, drawn in fine pen and ink; a designer might take the continuous horizontal panoramic format and the layered skyline of towers and distant hills as a model for wide banner or landscape compositions.
