Research Catalog

Title

Le Perou [graphic]

Publication

[183-?]

Details

Description

1 album (12 drawings); 30 cm.

Summary

Costume of Spanish women, mulattoes, and native Peruvians or Peruvians of mixed Indian and European ancestry (cholo) in Lima. Includes Spanish women wearing mantillas, dressed for the evening, reclining in a hammock smoking a cigar with a man sitting on the far end of the hammock, and on horseback; a mulatto smoking a cigar and wearing jasmine in her hair, a mulatto couple (he smoking) dancing; cholo or Indian wearing multi-colored poncho; chola or Indian wearing black apron in commemoration of Atahualpa, the Inca king; chola or Indian in traditional garb leading llama carrying firewood.

Subject

• Costume > Peru
• Black people > Peru
• Cigars
• Dance > Peru
• Indians of South America > Clothing
• Llamas
• Racially mixed people
• Smoking in art
• Women > Clothing & dress > Peru
• Women > Tobacco use > Peru

Genre/Form

• Albums.
• Drawings – 19th century.
• Watercolors.

Note

• Cover title.
• Twelve watercolor drawings 10 of which are mounted in album, 2 laid in.
• One of the laid-in drawings is inscribed in pencil on verso: Carmen Gutierres.
• A description in French is on the page opposite each mounted drawing.
• Bound in contemporary green binding with embossed and gilded title.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Arents 97-82

OCLC

NYPG97-F177

Title

Le Perou [graphic]

Imprint

[183-?]

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Arents Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

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Research Call Number

Arents 97-82