[Tapada and her servant]

Covered, woman in skirt (saya) and cloak (manto), accompanied by her page. She wears a wide dark red skirt, a white manila shawl and the cloak is black. He is followed by a smaller character who has a blue suit with yellow ribbons on the edges of the jacket frock coat and on the sides of the pants, he also wears a black hat with yellow ribbon at its base and black shoes.
Following the description written in German, the image would correspond to a "tapada" woman with her servant or page, who carries a cloak for her to kneel in the church. The skirt (saya) and the mantle (manto) were the most catching atributs of the clothing of the "tapada limeña", 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: "Tapada sur Mefse gehind der Bediente tragt ihr den schpichnach, auf dem sie in der kirche knich".
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.