Lima. Cloister of San Francisco – Vintage Print
(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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Lima. Cloister of San Francisco comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Lima. Cloister of San Francisco
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Rows of arches step back around an open courtyard in this 1868 view of the cloister of San Francisco in Lima, part of a Franciscan complex founded in the mid-1500s. The albumen print was made by Courret Hermanos, a photography studio working in Lima, and it appears in the album *Recuerdos del Perú*, a set of views of the country. Photographs like this one recorded colonial religious architecture at a time when such buildings drew wide interest from travelers and collectors, and the repeating arches show the convent's careful, orderly design.
| Created / published | 1868 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. Title from item. In album: Recuerdos del Peru, vol. 2. |
| Subjects | Convents--Peru--Lima--1860-1870. Arches--Peru--Lima--1860-1870. Courtyards--Peru--Lima--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,103 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-151596 |
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