ALBUM PALLIERE ESCENAS AMERICANAS REDUCCION DE CUADROS, AQUARELLES, Y BOSQUEJOS.
Palličre, León:
Buenos Aires: En venta en la casa de los S[eńo]res Fusoni H[erna]nos, [1864]. Lithographed titlepage plus fifty-two lithographed plates (nearly all tinted). Oblong folio. Twentieth-century half maroon morocco over red pebbled cloth boards, boards and spine gilt. Slight dampstaining and foxing on some plates, primarily in margins. A very good copy. A very rare album of fifty-two South American scenes, originally drawn by León Palličre and finely printed as lithographic plates in Buenos Aires by J. Pelvilain. The plates include views and portraits of local inhabitants in Argentina (44), Brazil (4), Uruguay (2), Chile (1), and Bolivia (1). Palličre, born in Rio de Janeiro in 1823 to French parents, travelled to France as a young child and eventually studied art there under F. E. Picot. He continued his artistic training both in South America between 1848 and 1850 and in Europe between 1850 and 1855. He then returned to South America, travelling for the next decade in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Chile, and Bolivia and producing the images found in this volume. The views consist primarily of rural scenes, and many of these images portray local inhabitants in a variety of activities. These illustrations and the other images of the native and mestizo population represent a variety of local types and occupations including Indians; rural and urban mestizo laborers (including a milk man and a bread seller); middle and upper class women in a theater gallery and in church; working men in pulperias; Black men and women at a market in Bahia; gauchos; soldiers (apparently rural conscripts); and even a surveyor in the countryside. A number of the lithographs focus on life in the country: on the plains, in camp, and at home. One such image, of a couple standing outside a straw house, includes a ten-line romantic poem by R. Gutierrez. A marvellous album of mid-19th century South American images published in Buenos Aires. Extremely rare, no copies in OCLC or RLIN. RLIN records 1967 and 1980 facsimiles at the Getty Research Institute and the USC, respectively. PALAU 211114. BORBA DE MORAES p. 648.
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