Adela Breton was a Victorian traveller and artist. Trained in painting watercolours, as expected of an accomplished young lady, she made use of her artistic skills to support archaeological work in Mexico. But according to a letter to William Gates, a collector of Maya manuscripts (24 April 1914, preserved in Brigham Young University Library), her first reasons for visiting Mexico were as much geological as archaeological: '13 visits to Mexico: at first to make geological pictures + study ancient sites then copying ancient paintings + objects'.
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机译：阿德莱布罗顿是维多利亚时代的旅行者和艺术家。 在绘画水彩画中受过培训，正如一位成熟的年轻女士的预期，她利用了她的艺术技能来支持墨西哥的考古工作。 但根据威廉盖茨的一封信，玛雅手稿的收藏家（1914年4月24日保留在Brigham Young University图书馆），她访问墨西哥的第一个原因是考古学的地质学：'13对墨西哥的访问：起初 地质图片+研究古代遗址然后复制古代绘画+对象'。
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