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Lima: Puente de Piedra and general view from Cerro San Cristóbal

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Photographers: Sociedad Fotográfica Lima (Eugène Maunoury & Cía.). Lima: Puente de Piedra and general view from Cerro San Cristóbal. 1862-1863. 2 albumen prints, mounted to card. Ca. 12 x 16,8 cm (mounts 17 x 24 cm). Each with embossed "SOCIEDAD FOTOGRÁFICA / LIMA" stamp; inscribed in ink "Lima. El Puente. 1862." and "Vista general de Lima, tomada del Cerro San Cristóbal."; one numbered "No. 17".

Issued by Sociedad Fotográfica Lima, these early albumen views belong to one of the first sustained photographic campaigns devoted to the Peruvian capital. The studio was founded by the French photographer Eugène Maunoury at 71 Calle del Palacio in 1862, at a formative moment in the development of commercial photography in Lima. Its workshop employed Eugène Courret shortly before he established Fotografía Central, the firm that would become a major force in Peruvian photography later in the century. Retaining their original manuscript titles and studio blindstamps, these rare prints record the emergence of Lima’s urban identity as a subject for photographic circulation.