Antique Lithograph View of Puerto de Huanchaco, Peru c.1865

Name: Antique Lithograph View of Puerto de Huanchaco, Peru c.1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-7
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 37.5 × 51.6 cm (14.8 × 20.3 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition overall. Some light foxing visible in the margins, typical of 19th-century paper. Image remains clean with fresh hand-coloring. Wide margins preserved, with plate mark visible. No folds.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-7

What the condition grades mean

Excellent: Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good: Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good: Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair: Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.

Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.

Guaranteed original. This is an original of the period stated, not a later reproduction or print-on-demand copy. If it is ever shown to be otherwise, we refund you in full.

Shipping to the United States. Sent from our gallery in Langweer, the Netherlands, flat between boards or rolled in a tube, and fully insured. Delivery and import charges.

About this piece

The fishing port of Huanchaco on the northern coast of Peru, near Trujillo, an original lithograph printed in tints with light color from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The plate title "Puerto de Huanchaco" is lettered beneath the image, and the running head names Paz Soldán and the Geografía del Perú.

The beach scene is full of working detail. At the left, reed boats (caballitos de totora) and fishing gear lie drawn up on the sand beside a wooden warehouse, while in the surf men swim and wade and a paddler sits in a small craft. A long shed or jetty on timber stilts runs out across the right middle ground beneath a large colonial building with a balcony, and the church with its single bell tower rises against low coastal hills. Figures in hats and ponchos stand along the shoreline.

The reed craft shown here are the same caballitos de totora still associated with Huanchaco, which later became known as one of the birthplaces of Peruvian surf culture. The atlas, printed in Paris by Lemercier, was the first comprehensive national atlas of Peru, combining maps, plans and views of its cities, ports and landscapes.

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