A View from Leicester Square: Panoramas of Mexico City (1826) and Lima (1836), and the Visual Making of Latin America – Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera (Virginia Tech)
Tue 8 Dec · Venue to be confirmed
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Tuesday, 8 December 2026, 6:00 PM, Gonzalo Muñoz-Vera (Virginia Tech) | A View from Leicester Square: Panoramas of Mexico City (1826) and Lima (1836), and the Visual Making of Latin America. This presentation examines panorama guidebooks produced for Robert Burford’s Leicester Square Panorama in London. Accompanying immersive 360-degree displays, these printed programmes mediated British encounters with distant urban worlds before the advent of mass tourism.
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