Hand-colored lithograph views of Huánuco & Huari, Peru – Plazas Mayores, 1865

Name: Hand-colored lithograph views of Huánuco & Huari, Peru – Plazas Mayores, 1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-26
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 51.6 × 37 cm (20.3 × 14.6 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition. Original hand-coloring intact with warm and natural tones. Light foxing and mild toning in the wide margins, not affecting the images. Plate mark clearly visible.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-26

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 plazas from the Peruvian highlands on a single sheet, original lithographs with color from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The upper view is lettered "Plaza Mayor de Huanuco" and the lower "Plaza Mayor de Huari".

The Huánuco plaza has a fountain at its center, a balconied house with a tiled roof at the left, and a church with two low domes and a tall pointed bell tower at the right. Small figures cross the open square, and a steep mountain wall closes the background. The Huari plaza is seen from a corner: a covered arcade of arches on the left, a long, low tile-roofed range of houses at the right, a group of people and animals in the open square, and a huge bare cliff face rising directly behind.

Both scenes show how small Andean towns sat tight against the mountains. 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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