Lowry's sketched map of the road to his fictional town Tomalín, located near Popocatepetl. Image courtesy UBC Special Collections.
| Locations > Mexico (other) | ||
| Lowry drew on a number of locations in Mexico to create the imaginative geography of Quauhnahuac. | ||
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| Atlas of the World and Gazetteer | ||
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| The Church at Tepotzlán | ||
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| Pico de Orizabe | ||
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| The town of Guanajuato and 'las Momias' | Above: The interior of Santa Prisca Cathedral, Taxco, the altars of which "are of a churrigueresque (overloaded) style" (UTV, 299). In his "Letter to Johnathan Cape" (61), Lowry drew an explicit parallel between the design of this church and that of his own novel. | |
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Lowry's sketched map of the road to his fictional town Tomalín, located near Popocatepetl. Image courtesy UBC Special Collections. |
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