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[Woman wearing a tapada seated on a stone block, Peru] – Historic Print

[Woman wearing a tapada seated on a stone block, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840] — historic drawing
[Woman wearing a tapada seated on a stone block, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Woman wearing a tapada seated on a stone block, Peru] comes to life in this historic drawing, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Woman wearing a tapada seated on a stone block, Peru]

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The tapada, a saya and manto that let a Lima woman cover most of her face while moving through the city, is the subject here, and this watercolor shows one seated on a block of stone. Painters in Peru during the 1830s, many working in the costumbrista style, recorded such street figures to document everyday life in the years after independence. The custom had colonial roots, when the veil gave women a degree of privacy and anonymity in public, and it was already fading by mid-century. The plain stone seat keeps attention on the figure and the layered garment.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1840]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,293 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110292

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