Antique Map of Lima Peru by Isaak Tirion – City Plan with Fortifications, 1769

Name: Antique Map of Lima Peru by Isaak Tirion – City Plan with Fortifications, 1769
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14303-25
Price: 440 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1769
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 21.7 × 30.5 cm (8.5 × 12 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition, considering its age. General age-related toning, minor marks and wear along the sheet edges. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Colonial America
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14303-25

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

Lima, the capital of colonial Peru, in an original copperplate-engraved city plan by Isaak Tirion, published in Amsterdam in 1769, with hand coloring. The title is lettered in the upper left corner as "Platte Grond van Lima de Hoofdstad van Peru".

The plan shows the city as a compact triangle of regular blocks laid out on a grid and enclosed by a bastioned wall, with the gates, gardens, convent courts and public squares marked within. Along the lower edge the Rímac River crosses the sheet in blue, with a bridge linking Lima to the smaller settlement on the opposite bank. A numbered key beneath the title identifies the principal buildings, and two scale bars sit at the top of the sheet. Light color is added to the river and its banks, while the surrounding country is stippled.

The walls were built between 1684 and 1687 to protect the wealthy viceregal capital from pirates and privateers operating along the Pacific coast. Tirion was a leading Amsterdam publisher of atlases and city plans, and his firm continued to issue maps after his death in 1765.

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