[Prisoners sweeping]

Representation of three men in the center of the composition. The first one has white pants, a gray jacket, a green cape, a white scarf around the neck and a yellow hat, he carries a broom in his right hand that he holds on to his right shoulder. The second sweeps the street and has blue pants, a red poncho, a white scarf around his neck, and a wide-brimmed yellow hat. Both characters have shackles and chains that bind them. The third one with his back turned and in a military suit, carries a bayonet, some white x-shaped ribbons that border the back and a long white hat with a blue ribbon at its base.
The prisons were institutions that supported the support of the new republican system through mechanisms of social control. However, extrajudicial forms of punishment were maintained, such as carrying out public works, executions, whipping and exile. Inscription: "Schoire verbricher in hessen swei zsisamnen gescmidt die strassen Limas veinigend".
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.