Antique Print of the City of Lima, Capital of Peru, c.1850

Name: Antique Print of the City of Lima, Capital of Peru, c.1850
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-10107b
Price: 155 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1850
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 15.3 × 25.1 cm (6 × 9.9 in)
Condition: Good. Age-related toning. Please study image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-10107b

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 Peru, in a tinted lithograph titled "Lima. (Hauptstadt in Peru)", from the German series Malerisches Universum oder Reisen um die Welt. The sheet was lithographed by Schwabe and printed by H. Osti, and the lettering at the foot refers to the work's Berlin publishers.

The view looks over a river toward the city's skyline of church domes and bell towers on the left, with a long arched stone bridge across the water and a wall of ruined or half-built structures on the right bank. A man sits fishing at the lower right, and rocks and low pools break the foreground of the river. The lithographer has used a warm buff tone block to give the sky and water a gentle glow, with the lines drawn over it in gray.

Malerisches Universum was a German illustrated survey of the world's sights, issued in installments with descriptions, and is typical of the mid-nineteenth century taste for lithographed views of far-off cities.

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