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Original Antique Costume Print "La Tapada" of Lima, Peru by A.A. Bonnaffé, 1855
$520
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Original print, not a reproduction.
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- Date
- 1855
- Sheet size
- 17.7 × 11.2 in (45 × 28.5 cm)
- Condition
- Good. Good condition considering its age. General age-related toning, occasional light foxing and minor handling wear. Please study the image carefully.
- Wardrobe
- Far & away
- Era
- 1840 to 1870, Crinoline
- Stock no.
- f_51218282
A veiled woman of Lima in "La Tapada (Saya y Manto)", an original hand-colored lithograph by Auguste-Antoine Bonnaffé from his album Recuerdos de Lima, dated 1855. The title and the subtitle "Saya y Manto" are lettered beneath the figure, with the lithographer's credits at either side and a signature and date at the lower right.
The tapada wears the costume that gave the type its name: a dark manto drawn over the head and across the face so that only one eye shows, over a fitted green bodice patterned with small flowers, and a full brown saya skirt with a mottled pattern. A fringed shawl with floral embroidery hangs from her arm, and she holds the veil closed with one hand. Her skirt is lifted just enough to show a stockinged foot and ankle, a detail often remarked on by travelers. She stands without background, within an arched outline, on a tinted ground.
The saya y manto was a distinctive fashion of colonial and early republican Lima, and visitors wrote often of the anonymity it gave the wearer. Bonnaffé, a French painter who traveled in Peru in the 1850s, recorded the city's types and dress in this album.
