Cathedral of Arequipa Peru – Antique Architectural Lithograph c.1865

Name: Cathedral of Arequipa Peru – Antique Architectural Lithograph c.1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-2
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 37 × 51.5 cm (14.6 × 20.3 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Good condition overall. Some scattered foxing in the margins and light handling marks, but the image itself remains sharp and clean. Plate mark visible. Blank verso.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-2

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 cathedral of Arequipa, a lithograph from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico de la República del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The plate is lettered "Catedral de la Ciudad de Arequipa" beneath the image, with "Paz Soldán" at the upper left and "Geografía del Perú, Pl. XLIV" at the upper right. It is printed in tones of sepia on cream paper, with the artist and printers' credits (F. Delamare, drawn; H. Jacomme, printed) below the image.

The long colonnaded front of the cathedral stretches across the plate, with a pedimented center and a tall bell tower at each end, and a broad plaza with market stalls and awnings in the foreground. Behind the building rises the snow-capped cone of the volcano that dominates the city, drawn with a soft tone across the sky.

The view shows the cathedral on the Plaza de Armas of Arequipa, in southern Peru, as it appeared in the 1860s, in one of the series of lithographed views that illustrated Paz Soldán's atlas.

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