Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy

Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy was an 18th-century botanical artist and naturalist from New Spain who trained at the Royal Art Academy in Mexico City.

The men remained in Mexicalzingo making dissections and sketches while the rest of the group went back to Mexico City.

[3] Getting the color down correctly is also a big part in the drawings since it will be studied for scientific purposes Echeverría then joined the Guantanamo Commission under Conte de Mopox y Jaruco, which traveled across Cuba.

Afterwards, Echeverría briefly traveled to Madrid before returning to Mexico and becoming an art director at the Academy of San Carlos.

[4] The Torner Collection of Sessé & Mociño Biological Illustrations is a collections of over 2,000 botanical and zoological illustrations made by Atanasio Echeverría y Gody, Juan de Dios Vicente de la Cerda, Jose Guio and Pedro Oliver.

[3] In 1828 Swiss botanist, Augustin Pyramus de Candolle was fascinated by Echevería's drawings and gave him the honor of having a large genus of flowering plants named after him that are native to the desert areas of central America, Mexico, and northwestern South America.