[Merced priest]

Profile character in movement attitude. He is dressed in a white robe and cape. Wear shoes. His hair is particularly arranged, revealing the top of his bald head. In the middle part of his suit, he carries the shield of the Mercedarian order. It bears the inscription "Padre de la Merced" on the lower edge.
The order of Mercy is recognized as one of the first to arrive along with the Spanish conquest, taking care of evangelizing even in the Aimara and Quechua languages.
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.