[Baker]

Mestizo man with a mustache riding a donkey to the left of the composition. He wears a blue suit (jacket and pants) and a white shirt, as well as a wide-brimmed hat. On the donkey's back he carries two large saddlebags with the inscription "SS".
The bread is a preparation based on yeast and wheat flour, elements introduced with the Spanish conquest. Initially its consumption was urban, but by the time it was incorporated into the diet of the entire population. In ancient Lima, it was traditional for the baker to pass by in the morning announcing the sale of hot bread. Inscription: "’Baker’ oder Backer, des das Broot in die Hauser Bringt".
It belongs to the album "1871 Praetoria" which contains 39 sheets of which 25 are watercolors and 14 are illuminated lithographs. These images are an example of the nineteenth-century production of pictorial costumbrismo in Peru, a repertoire of typical characters -in this case from the city of Lima-, composed without much context, and rather characterized by their work and clothing.