[Two women wearing tapadas, Peru] – Historic Print
![[Two women wearing tapadas, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840] — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/50e95e288d32-L.webp)
(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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This rare historic drawing captures [Two women wearing tapadas, Peru] in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Two women wearing tapadas, Peru]
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Two women draped in tapadas, the enveloping black or dark mantles worn by women in Lima, stand at the center of this watercolor, their faces partly hidden by the cloth that let them move through the city with a degree of anonymity. Tapadas became a familiar sight in Peru during the early nineteenth century, and artists of the period, many drawn to costume as a record of local life, recorded them in street scenes and portraits. Dating from roughly 1830 to 1840, the work is worth noticing for its close attention to the folds of the garments and the social codes they carried.
| Created / published | [between 1830 and 1840] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : watercolor. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,062 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-110303 |
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