[Man who fries fish]

Composition with an animal to the left and a seated character to the right. The animal stands behind the man and carries two wooden buckets. The character is an Afro-descendant man who is cooking what appears to be fish. At his side you can see a basket with fish not yet cooked.
Following the description, we find ourselves before the pescaufritero, the name by which one of the various street vendors of popular Lima in the 19th century was known. He used to sell cooked fish. In general, these were located on the corners, squares or paths of the city.
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.