Puerto de Islay Peru – Antique Coastal Port Lithograph c.1865

Name: Puerto de Islay Peru – Antique Coastal Port Lithograph c.1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-13
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 33.9 × 51.3 cm (13.3 × 20.2 in)
Condition: Good. Good condition. Mild age toning and a few small foxing spots in the margins, not affecting the image. Strong impression with wide margins and visible plate mark. A few tears but well outside the image.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-13

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 port of Islay on the southern coast of Peru, an original lithograph printed in sepia tints from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The plate title "Puerto de Islay" is lettered beneath the image, and the sheet carries the running head of Paz Soldán's Geografía del Perú.

The view is taken across a rocky inlet. Dark, broken cliffs fill the left foreground and descend to a still stretch of water, where a small rock stack stands offshore. On the cliff tops behind are the port's buildings, including a large verandaed house and long warehouse roofs, and a small white building sits lower down on the rocks near the water. Beyond, the plain runs away to a low line of hills under a warm, cloud-streaked sky.

Islay served as the port for Arequipa and its hinterland, shipping wool and other regional produce, until Mollendo took over that trade in the 1870s. The sheet records the harbor at the moment the atlas was compiled. 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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