Hand-colored lithograph views of the Cathedral and La Merced Church, Lima – 1865

Name: Hand-colored lithograph views of the Cathedral and La Merced Church, Lima – 1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-23
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 52 × 36.4 cm (20.5 × 14.3 in)
Condition: Good. Very good condition. Original hand-coloring well preserved with soft pastel tones. Minor age toning and a few foxing spots in margins, not affecting the printed areas. Wide margins intact, plate mark visible.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-23

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 of Lima's principal churches on a single sheet, original hand-colored lithographs from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico del Perú, published in Paris in 1865, printed in tints. The upper view is lettered "Iglesia de la Merced" and the lower "Catedral de Lima".

The upper view looks up a street corner to the Merced church, a tall square tower with a domed top beside a richly carved baroque portal, with a low colonnade running along the side. The lower view faces the cathedral across the open Plaza Mayor: a long façade with a decorated central portal, flanked by two towers with domed tops, and a dome rising behind it at the left.

The cathedral stands on the site where Francisco Pizarro laid its first foundation in 1535, and like most of Lima's churches it was rebuilt several times after earthquakes. 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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