[Barbones priest]

Character in profile, dressed in a habit with a black cape. He wears a wide-brimmed black hat and shoes. An insignia is recognized on his shoulder, where we can see two characters, one with a cross, representing the nativity of Jesus. It bears the inscription "Father of the Barbones" on the bottom edge.
Barbones was the popular name of a religious order called Bethlemite. They were known as "bearded" precisely because they wore a long beard, although they stopped this practice towards the beginning of the 19th century. The central axis of their Christian work was nursing, even if the ill ones had contagious diseases and/or were unfaithful. They were supporters of American independence, for which they were expelled from the Spanish dominions.
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.