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[Penitent in procession, Peru] – Vintage Print

[Penitent in procession, Peru], [between 1830 and 1840] — historic drawing
[Penitent in procession, 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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A hooded penitent moves through a Peruvian procession in this watercolor, a sight common in Lima and other towns during Holy Week. Penitents often belonged to lay religious brotherhoods, and they covered their faces and undertook acts of devotion such as walking barefoot or carrying heavy loads through the streets. Drawings like this one, made in the 1830s, were popular with European and American travelers, who collected images of local customs in a young republic still settling into independence from Spain.

Created / published[between 1830 and 1840]
Medium1 drawing : watercolor.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,163 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-110310

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