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Houses of Worship
Cathedral of Arequipa Peru, Antique Architectural Lithograph c.1865
Anno Domini MDCCCLXV1865
£375
$495 · €440
Original print, not a reproduction
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- Date
- 1865
- Sheet size
- 14.6 × 20.3 in (37 × 51.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Condition report: Good condition overall. Some scattered foxing in the margins and light handling marks, but the image itself remains sharp and clean. Plate mark visible. Blank verso.
- Faith
- Christianity
- Collection
- Houses of Worship
- Era
- 1850 and after, Chromolithographs and devotional prints
- Stock no.
- f_46483222
The cathedral of Arequipa, a lithograph from Mariano Felipe Paz Soldán's Atlas Geográfico de la República del Perú, published in Paris in 1865. The plate is lettered "Catedral de la Ciudad de Arequipa" beneath the image, with "Paz Soldán" at the upper left and "Geografía del Perú, Pl. XLIV" at the upper right. It is printed in tones of sepia on cream paper, with the artist and printers' credits (F. Delamare, drawn; H. Jacomme, printed) below the image.
The long colonnaded front of the cathedral stretches across the plate, with a pedimented center and a tall bell tower at each end, and a broad plaza with market stalls and awnings in the foreground. Behind the building rises the snow-capped cone of the volcano that dominates the city, drawn with a soft tone across the sky.
The view shows the cathedral on the Plaza de Armas of Arequipa, in southern Peru, as it appeared in the 1860s, in one of the series of lithographed views that illustrated Paz Soldán's atlas.
