[Cockfight]

Representation of three Afro-descendant men facing the left of the composition. The first plays the trumpet, wears white pants and shirt, a blue cape and a tall top hat. The second plays the drum, wears a suit and a white shirt. It also has a small, rounded white hat. The third wears brown pants below the knees, the underwear with white edges stands out. He also has a white shirt and over it a green poncho with vertical lines. On his head he carries a cage with a bird inside and whose upper end ends with the Peruvian flag.
This image represents the announcements prior to the celebration of the cockfights, a retinue that walked shouting through the streets showing one of the specimens for the event to attract the attention of the public. Inscription: "Rooster treat durch die strassen limes zichend /(lisladung zund hahnengefecht)".
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.