Original Antique Costume Print "La Tapada" of Lima, Peru by A.A. Bonnaffé, 1855

Name: Original Antique Costume Print "La Tapada" of Lima, Peru by A.A. Bonnaffé, 1855
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14303-35
Price: 520 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1855
Kind: Native Peoples
Size: 45 × 28.5 cm (17.7 × 11.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition considering its age. General age-related toning, occasional light foxing and minor handling wear. Please study the image carefully.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14303-35

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

A veiled woman of Lima in "La Tapada (Saya y Manto)", an original hand-colored lithograph by Auguste-Antoine Bonnaffé from his album Recuerdos de Lima, dated 1855. The title and the subtitle "Saya y Manto" are lettered beneath the figure, with the lithographer's credits at either side and a signature and date at the lower right.

The tapada wears the costume that gave the type its name: a dark manto drawn over the head and across the face so that only one eye shows, over a fitted green bodice patterned with small flowers, and a full brown saya skirt with a mottled pattern. A fringed shawl with floral embroidery hangs from her arm, and she holds the veil closed with one hand. Her skirt is lifted just enough to show a stockinged foot and ankle, a detail often remarked on by travelers. She stands without background, within an arched outline, on a tinted ground.

The saya y manto was a distinctive fashion of colonial and early republican Lima, and visitors wrote often of the anonymity it gave the wearer. Bonnaffé, a French painter who traveled in Peru in the 1850s, recorded the city's types and dress in this album.

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