Santo Domingo Tower Lima Peru – Antique Lithograph c.1865

Name: Santo Domingo Tower Lima Peru – Antique Lithograph c.1865
Brand: American Maps and Prints
SKU: BG-14032-1
Price: 490 USD
Availability: InStock

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Date: 1865
Kind: Views & Engravings
Size: 34.1 × 52.4 cm (13.4 × 20.6 in)
Condition: Good. Condition report: Good impression with strong tonal contrasts. Minor age toning in the margins, faint handling marks, and a small scattered fox mark, none affecting the image. Plate mark visible. Blank verso.
Period: Westward Expansion & Civil War
Places: Peru
Reference: BG-14032-1

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 tower of Santo Domingo in Lima, a lithograph from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico de la República del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The plate is lettered "Vista de la Torre de Santo Domingo" beneath the image, with "Paz Soldán" at the upper left and "Geografía del Perú, Pl. XXVII" at the upper right. It is printed in sepia tones on cream paper, with the artist and printers' credits (F. Delamare, drawn; H. Jacomme, printed) in small lettering below the image.

The view looks across the rooftops of Lima, where flat roofs, balustrades and small kiosks (miradores) are drawn in the foreground, with laundry hanging out to dry. The tall, tiered tower of Santo Domingo rises at the center, and the dome of another church stands to the left, with a line of Andean foothills behind.

Paz Soldán, a Peruvian geographer, published the atlas in Paris in 1865, and it included a series of lithographed views of cities, monuments and landscapes alongside its maps. This plate shows the baroque tower as it stood in the mid-19th century.

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