Puno Peru Antique City View Lithograph – Panoramic Scene c.1865

Name: Puno Peru Antique City View Lithograph – Panoramic Scene c.1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-11
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: City Views & Plans
Size: 35.1 × 52.5 cm (13.8 × 20.7 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Good impression with strong contrast. Marginal foxing and light handling creases, not affecting the image. Plate mark visible. Blank verso.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-11

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 general view of Puno, in southern 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 "Vista General de Puno" is lettered beneath the image, with the drawing credited to F. Delamare and the printing to H. Jacomme.

The view looks down over the flat roofs and walled enclosures of the town, laid out in a regular grid of low adobe buildings. Beyond the rooftops stands the church complex with its twin towers and a dome, and a few trees break the pattern of walls in the foreground. Behind the town the bare Andean slope climbs steeply to the top of the sheet, scored by a winding track, which conveys the high, treeless setting of the Altiplano.

Puno was founded in the late 17th century and grew as a trading and religious center near Lake Titicaca, linking Peru with Bolivia. Paz Soldán's atlas combined 49 maps and 29 views, and this is one of its Andean panoramas.

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