Antique Lithographs of Lima Peru 1865 – Paseo de los Descalzos & Mercaderes

Name: Antique Lithographs of Lima Peru 1865 – Paseo de los Descalzos & Mercaderes
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-16
Price: 460 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 52.4 × 33.8 cm (20.6 × 13.3 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition. Light age toning and minor foxing in margins, well away from the images. Strong impressions with sepia tint stone. Plate mark visible, wide margins preserved.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-16

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

Two street scenes from Lima on a single sheet, original lithographs printed in sepia tints from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The upper view is lettered "Paseo de la Alameda de los Descalzos" and the lower "Vista de la Calle de Mercaderes".

The upper image looks along a broad, paved promenade toward the hills behind the city. Stone pillars topped with statues flank an iron gateway, and elegantly dressed women and men stroll in the foreground, with the dome of the convent visible in the distance. The Convento de los Descalzos stands at the foot of San Cristóbal hill, and the Alameda was a favorite leisure walk of the capital.

The lower image runs down the Calle de Mercaderes, one of Lima's principal shopping streets, between façades with enclosed wooden balconies and cloth awnings stretched over the shopfronts. A domed tower closes the view at the far end. Together the two scenes show the city at leisure and at trade. 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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