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[Man on horseback, Peru] – Antique Print

[Man on horseback, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840] — historic drawing
[Man on horseback, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840]. Historic drawing from the Horses collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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[Man on horseback, Peru] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Man on horseback, Peru]

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A single rider on horseback in Peru, rendered in watercolor, puts the horse and its rider at the center of the scene. The picture is dated to the 1830s, a decade when Peru was still working out its politics after independence from Spain in 1821. Lima and the surrounding countryside produced a strong tradition of costumbrista watercolors that recorded local dress, trades, and types of people, and images like this one often served as visual records of daily life for viewers far from the region. Horsemanship carried social weight there, so the rider's posture and equipment can tell you as much about status and place as the landscape does.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1840]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,065 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176007

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