Sujet

View of Lima, the capital of Peru, 1864. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

View of Lima, the capital of Peru, 1864. Engraving from a sketch by David Powell, '...taken from the foot of the hill, San Cristoval, at the end of the old Alameda...The principal buildings...are the cathedral...and the church of San Francisco, which is by far the finest building of its kind in the New World. In the distance we see the high ground of the island of San Lorenzo, protecting the anchorage at Callao. The Alameda, which runs along the river and constitutes the foreground of our View, is, unfortunately, a place to be avoided on account of the rascals who frequent it. The outline of the buildings in Lima is very picturesque; but the detail is very coarse...In the foreground is an iron-foundry, which we may remark as an instance of the European inventions which are coming into general use in these new countries of South America'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A15_418

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NA

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

55,3Mo (4,6Mo) / 46,2cm x 30,0cm / 5453 x 3547 (300dpi)

Mots clés

city South America building buildings event religious arts industry religion metal art smoke British cathedral church color industrial Christianity cityscape location century iron Britain newspapers press Peru print Lima concept B&W capital city foundry engraved engraving industrial revolution Colour metalworking 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century metalworks The Print Collector Illustrated London News metal industry TGN ILN newspaper landscape Unknown 19th-century Alameda