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[Woman on horseback, Peru] – Antique Wall Art

[Woman on horseback, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840] — historic drawing
[Woman 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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Few images capture their era like this historic drawing of [Woman on horseback, Peru]. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Most horse pictures on this board show animals or men in military and sporting settings, but this watercolor, dated between 1830 and 1840, puts a woman on horseback in Peru. Images of this kind belong to the costumbrista tradition, in which artists in Lima and other Andean cities painted local people and customs in everyday dress for a market of foreign travelers and residents. Such pictures record how riding and dress marked social identity in the decade after many South American countries won independence from Spain. Because the record gives only a title and date, the sitter and the painter remain unidentified.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1840]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,133 × 1,466 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-176018

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