[Lady taking off her skirt and cloak]

Woman represented from behind with a long braid taking off her skirt and mantle. She wears black shoes, white socks and petticoat, and a yellow dress. He has a blue scarf around his neck.
The skirt and the mantle were the most outstanding components of the clothing of the Lima covered, emblematic figure of the city, recognized as mysterious and seductive. Its existence can be traced from the 16th century to the middle of the 19th century, and although its use was banned numerous times due to moral accusations, its disappearance was due rather to new fashions arriving from abroad. Inscription: "Eine senora im begriff sich Saya und Manto sibergrizichen".
It belongs to the album "1871 Praetoria" which contains 39 sheets of which 25 are watercolors and the remaining 14 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.