Description

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

From Collection

Perou

Record Contributed By

George Arents Collection. The New York Public Library

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The New York Public Library