[Columbian Watercolour Collection ]

Description

Rare early c.19th watercolours by two artists; Jose S. Castillo  and Joseph Pio Dominguez dated from 1832-1837 of peoples and scenes in around Bogota, Columbia.

Santa Marta. /unsigned     First Spanish settlement in Columbia.
Bogota Wassailers, Serenanding-1837     / unsigned
Poncha Bogota 1832     / unsigned     Depicts a native of Tunebo in north eastern Colombia
[Un Pigmeo, natural de Bogota Murio in 1836]     / unsigned
Living Liliputians, …..     / signed          J.S.C. (Jose S. Castillo )
An “Orejon” or Farmer of the Plain of Bogota. 1837    / signed          Jose S. Castillo, with another untitled pasted on the verso
“Calentano” Going to Market. – by J.S.C. 1837     / signed          J.S.C. (Jose S. Castillo ), with another untitled pasted on the verso
Travelling in “Tierra Caliente”-New Granda-1837     / unsigned
“Tapieros” or Mud Wall Builders-Bogota 1837     / unsigned
A Farmer of the Plain of Bogota 1837     / unsigned
A Roana Weaver 1837     / unsigned
“Campesina” or Country-Woman Vicinity of Bogota 1837     / initialled P.D. [Joseph Pio Dominguez]
“A Lame and Impotent Conclusion”. 1837      / initialled P.D. [Joseph Pio Dominguez]
“Arriero” or Carrier of Bogota 1837     / initialled P.D. [Joseph Pio Dominguez]
Costume of Lima by J.M.D.     / initialled P.D. [Joseph Pio Dominguez]
Natives of Guaduas. 1837     / initialled P.D. and signed Joseph Pio Dominguez
County Costumes of Bogota and a Neighborhood 1837   sic     / unsigned   on the verso Lingua inca.
Costumes of….     / unsigned
Procession in the Holy Week in Bogota in 1837!     / unsigned
A “Chapman” Going up the River Magdalena. 1836     / unsigned