Peru Collection

Peruvian Quipu
A quipu of ancient Peru

Map of Peru 1683 Mallet
Perou. A map showing a coastal part of South America on the South Pacific. Both the equator and tropic of Capricorn are given

Portrait of Tupac Amaru II. Painting
TUPAC AMARU II, Jos頇 abriel Condorcanqui (1741-1781). Portrait of Tupac Amaru II. Painting

MENDOZA, Antonio de (1450-1552). Viceroy of Mexico (1535-1549). SPAIN. Madrid. Americas Museum

Francisco Pizarro
FRANCISCO PIZARRO Spanish conquistador who added Peru to the Spanish dominions

Peru / Cuzco C1520
View of the city at the time of the Spanish conquest

Peru - Huancayo in Wanka Quechua (Wankayuq) - the capital of the Junin Region, in the central highlands. Date: circa 1910s

The Bath Houses - Barranco, Peru. Date: circa 1910s

Peru / Lima / Cathedral 1891
Lima: street scene near the Cathedral

Pedro De Valdivia
PEDRO DE VALDIVIA - Spanish conquistador in Chile and Peru (founder of Santiago). Date: 1498 - 1553

General view of Cuzco, Peru, South America
A general view of Cuzco (or Cusco), historic capital of the Inca Empire, Peru, South America

Steamship in port of Mollendo, Peru, South America
Moonlit scene with a steamship in the port of Mollendo, southern Peru, South America. Date: 1916

San Francisco church, Barranco, Lima, Peru, South America
San Francisco church in Barranco, a district of Lima, Peru, South America. circa 1910

Lima - Peru - Plaza de la Inquisicion (Inquisition Square) Date: circa 1920

Peru - Gold Prospecting
Peru. - Prospecting for gold

Matses or Matis warrior of Brazil, with facial tattoos, labrets, and piercings with macaw feathers and snail shells. Maxurunas Indian, Brazil. Maxourounas (Bresil)

Native American woman of Lima, Peru. She wears the manto (cape), saya (dress), embroidered apron, silk stockings and satin shoes. Femme de Lima

Mixed-race man with torch, Lima, Peru
Mixed-race man or mestizo with torch or candle, Lima, Peru. He wears a straw hat, poncho, jacket, short pants and sandals, White and Native American descent. Metis. Handcoloured woodcut by L

Quechua women of Peru, 16th century. The woman spinning yarn with a spindle wears a striped cotton dress and wide belt. Another woman wears a cloak fastened with a brooch at the chest

Native American soldier from Peru, 16th century. Holding a shield, spear with hardened palm-wood tip, and wearing in quilted cotton helmet and vest over a tunic, wooden axe

Native American soldier of Peru, 16th century. He wears a quilted cotton bonnet and vest, colorful tunic, and carries slingshot and stones, wooden dagger with copper tip. Soldat du Perou en guerre

Native American nobleman from Cusco, Peru, 16th century. He wears a feather headdress and hacola cloak. Noble de Cusco. Within a decorative frame engraved by H. Catenacci and Fellmann

Native American man of Peru, 16th century. He wears a headband, tunic decorated with flowers and birds and checkered design, holds a flask and palm-wood farming tool. Hommes de Perou

Poro poro or gulupa, Passiflora pinnatistipula. Endangered fruit species of the Andes. Seeds sent from Peru in 1829 and flowered in Mrs Charlotte Marryat's Parkside garden in Wimbledon

Two-coloured slipperwort, Calceolaria bicolor. Native of Canta in Peru, discovered by Scottish plant hunter Alexander Cruckshanks (or Cruickshank) and introduced in 1829

Peruvian lily, Alstroemeria pelegrina. Native of Peru, introduced into Spain by Baron C. Alstroemer, and to the Royal Gardens at Kew in 1753. Spotted-flowered alstroemeria, white variety

Ismene narcissiflora. Cup-flowered sea daffodil, Pancratium calathinum. Native to Peru and Bolivia

Garden nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus. Native of Peru introduced to Europe in 1684. Dark red Indian cress, Tropaeolum majus atrosanguineum

Peruvian lily or Inca lily, Alstromeria pelegrina
Peruvian lily, Inca lily or upright Lima lilly, Alstromeria pelegrina (Peru)

Miltoniopsis roezlii orchid, native to Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and Panama. Imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Odontoglossum roezlii

Passion flower, Passiflora insignis
Passion flower or passion vine, Passiflora insignis. Raised by gardener Mr Anderson at Soweby Hall, Hull, from seeds sent from South America (Peru). As Tacsonia insignis

Davis's begonia, Begonia davisii. Discovered by plant hunter Walter Davis near Arequipa in Peru, sold by James Veitch and Sons, King's Road, Chelsea

White Miltoniopsis orchid, Miltoniopsis roezlii, native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Panama. Named for orchid collector Benedikt Roezl, imported by William Bull of Chelsea

Harrison's amaryllis, Hippeastrum vittatum. Found in Lima, Peru, by William Harrison and imported by nurseryman William Bull, King's Road, Chelsea. As Amaryllis vittata var. harrisoniae

Stenomesson pauciflorum. Native to western South America, introduced from Peru by Scottish plant collector James Cowan. Few-flowered chrysiphiala, Chrysiphiala pauciflora

Sword-leaved ornithocephalus orchid, Ornithocephalus gladiatus. Native from Grenada, Trinidad, the Guianas, Venezuela, Ecuador, to Peru, Bolivia and Brazil

Swaddled babies orchid, Anguloa uniflora
Swaddled babies orchid, carpales or one-flowered anguloa, Anguloa uniflora. Sent by Linden from Colombia, raised and flowered by Mr Barker of Birmingham. Found in Muna, Chincao and Tarma in Peru

Stenomesson aurantiacum. Native to Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Found by plant hunter Karl Theodor Hartweg at the Hacienda of Ixo, Quito province, Peru. Mr

Macleania insignis. Named for Scottish plant merchant John Maclean of Lima, Peru. Long-flowered macleania, Macleania longiflora

Field Peruvian lupin, Lupinus arvensis
Field Peruvian lupine or lupin, Lupinus arvensis. Found in corn field near Loxa, Peru, by plant hunter Karl Theodor Hartweg and grown in the Horticultural Society gardens

Peruvian lily or lily of the Incas, Alstroemeria chorillensis. Native to South America, supplied to the Horticultural Society by John Maclean of Lima, Peru

Swan orchid, Cycnoches pentadactylon
Five-fingered swan-neck, Cycnoches pentadactylon. Native to Peru and Brazil. Plant obtained by George Loddiges nursery

Acineta superba orchid
Acineta superba, epiphytic orchid found in Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Humboldt's peristeria, Peristeria humboldti or Anguloa superba

Yolk-of-egg stenomesson, Stenomesson vitellinum. Native to Lima, Peru

Rose of Mexico, Oenothera rosea
Rosy evening-primrose, rose evening primrose, pink evening primrose, Rose of Mexico, rose-coloured oenothera, Oenothera rosea. Native to Peru, introduced by French botanist Andre Thouin in 1783

White rain lily, Zephyranthes candida
White rain lily or Peruvian zephyranthes, Zephyranthes candida. Native to Peru and Argentina, drawn at Spofforth nursery

Cuban zephyrlily, Zephyranthes rosea
Cuban zephyrlily, rosy rain lily, rose fairy lily, rose zephyr lily, pink rain lily, or rose-coloured zephyranthes, Zephyranthes rosea

Spreading scarlet hamelia, Hamelia patens. Native of St Domingo, Jamaica and the Andes, Peru, Provided by Mrs Walker of Arno's Grove, Southgate

Brick houses built by the Incas, Peru. Plan of a building a, part of an interior wall b, part of an exterior wall, methods of embedding d and e

Native American swimmer-couriers in Peru, 1800s. Men with letters wrapped in turbans swim in rivers between Quito and Jaen de Bracamoros Province

Military macaw, Ara militaris, in a jungle with domed temple. Native of Mexico and Peru. Great green macaw, Macrocercus militaris

Francisco Pizarro (1478-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire. Portrait. Engraving. Detail. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume IV, 1856

Francisco Pizarro (1478-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire. Portrait. Engraving. Historia Universal, by Cesar Cantu. Volume IV, 1856

Jose Santos de la Hera y de la Puente (1792-1859). 1st Count of Valmaseda and 1st Viscount of Portugalete. Spanish military

Jeronimo Valdes y Sierra (1784-1855). Spanish general
Jeronimo Valdes y Sierra (1784-1855). 1st count of Torata and count of Villarin. Spanish general. Portrait. Engraving by Jose Gomez. Panorama Espanol, Cronica Contemporanea. Volume III. Madrid, 1845

Francisco Pizarro (1478-1541) Spanish conqueror of the Incas
Francisco Pizarro (1478-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire. Pizarro encourages his companions for the conquest of Peru, 1527. Engraving by Rico after a painting by Angel Lizcano (1846-1929)

A priest of Lima, Peru, graciously accepts a gift of money from a pious lady Date: circa 1850

HUMAN SACRIFICE, PERU
Human sacrifice by the Incas of Peru 1 of 2 Date: pre-conquest

The Arsenal Dock - Callao, Peru. circa 1910s

Rio Ampayaco, Peru - Bora Indians in their village. The Bora are an indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon, located between the Putumayo and Napo rivers

Red angels trumpet, Brugmansia sanguinea. Extinct in the wild

Ruins of the Wiracocha Temple at Raqch i, Peru
Built in the fifteenth century and considered by the historians to be one of the most audacious Inca constructions, the remarkable Wiracocha temple at Raqchi

Stinson-Faucett F-19 OB-PAH-140 (msn 25, re-registered as OB-R-140 in 1964), outside the Faucett HQ in Lima

Lima, Peru - The Hippodrome, with its remarkable isalmic/moorish architectural styling. circa 1910

Peru - Campa and Amuesha people - Perene District
Two native mountain tribal folk of the Campa del Alto Perene (Parenisati or Asheninca) and Amuesha (Yanesha) from the Perene District of the province Chanchamayo in Peru in full traditional costume

Francisco Pizarro (1471 / 1476-1541)
Francisco Pizarro y Gonzalez, 1st Marquess of los Atabillos ( c.1471 or 1476-1541). Spanish conqueror of the Incan Empire and founder of Lima. Peru

de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter FAP313
Fuerza Aerea del Peru - de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter       FAP313 (msn 323), at Toronto-Island, ON

Aqueduct Taking Water To La Perichole, Lima, Peru

Rue De Valladolid, Lima, Peru

Maison De La Perichole, Lima, Peru

Convent of St Claire, Lima, Peru

Convent of San Francisco, Lima, Peru

Lima Cathedral, Peru

Callao, Peru

Lima, Peru, Pont Sur Le Rimac

Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617), circa 1670
Saint Rose of Lima (1586-1617). Christian mystical religious, member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic. Portrait by Bartolome Esteban Murillo (1617-1682), circa 1670. Detail

House In Peru, Baillie Scott
A pair of architectural drawings showing opposite elevations of a house in Peru. Date: early 1900s

Pizarro statue in Trujilo
A Statue of the Spanish Conqueror of Peru, Don Francisco Pizarro, the Work of the American Sculptor C Rumsey. Presented by the duke of Alba and the marquis de Zianna to the town of Trujilo in Spain

Wooden anthropomorphic figure. Chimu culture
Wooden anthropomorphic figure. There were idols and depictions of ancestors In the temples and shrines. Chimu culture. Late Intermediate Horizon (1000-1470 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas

Plate decorated with depiction of two fish. Ceramics. Inca culture (1400-1533 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

Sculptural vessel. Ceramic. Lambayeque culture or Sican (700-1350 AD). North coast of the central Andes, Peru. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

Vessel with mythical character. Ceramic. Chimu-Inca culture. Late Horizon (1470-1532 AD). Peru. Museum of the Americas. Madrid, Spain. Date: 2018

Phytomorphic vessel. Depiction of the fruit known as lucuma (Pouteria Lucuma). Piece from the excavations of the Bishop Baltasar Martinez de Companon (1785). Chimu culture

Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar 52-5850 (msn 11009), at Grissom Air Museum, Grissom AFB, Peru, iN Date: circa 1980

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