Author: Antuña, Enrique M.
Title: Arte E Historica. Cuadros Históricos de Episodios de la Independencia Pintados Por Diógenes Héquet
Description: Montevideo, Librería y Papelería del Ateneo, Sierra y Antuña, 1896. First edition. Disbound. 55 pp. 12mo. Juan Bautista Diogenes Hequet (1866-1902) was a Uruguayan painter and lithographer who produced an historical series of paintings entitled "National Episodes" on the Uruguayan War for Independence. This work is a textual description of ten of the paintings. Rare. Palau 13341 notes only a related item by the same author. OCLC lists a single copy at Berkeley. Not in BN Uruguay or any other Latin American Library catalogues. Removed from a larger volume, closed tear to inner margin of first few leaves, bookseller's stamp on title page, otherwise contents about very good.

Keywords: , Americana, Art, South America, Western Art, Uruguay, 19th c., Héquet, Diógenes, Latin American Art, Uruguayan Art, Pamphlet Americana


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