Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby.

  • Hornsby, W., active 1821-1829.
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1829
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30537i
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Potosí, Peru (later Bolivia): Edmond Temple, a lady (Doña Juliana), her Andean servants and two clerics assembled for grace after dinner. Aquatint by J. Clark, 1829, after W. Hornsby. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"Doña Juliana, Cura Costas, (the respectable head of the church at Potosi), Padre Francisco (a Dominican friar, whose portly corporation excited in my mind a malicious suspicion of his being more accustomed to feasting than fasting), were the party with whom, at two o'clock, I sat down to dinner. ... When the cloth was removed, all the attendants, without any word of command, ranged themselves in a rank in the middle of the room, and suddenly dropping on their knees, sung or said aloud a grace that lasted full four minutes, in which the deep-toned voices of Padre Costas and Friar Francisco, nothing mellowed by their hearty meal and ample goblet of Cinty wine from the estate of our hostess, chimed in like bass-viols, whilst Doña Juliana, pressing her cross and beads to her bosom, her eyes devoutly fixed upon a beautiful painting of the Virgin and Child, which hung opposite to her in a large massive silver frame, accompanied the others in all the fervency of thanksgiving. A deep "Amen!" with the sign of the cross, as a benediction upon the company, by Padre Costas, ended this appropriate ceremony, in the solemnity of which the most obdurate heretic could not have refrained from joining."--Temple, loc. cit. Temple is standing on the left

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London : Colburn & Bentley, 1829.

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1 print : aquatint, with etching ; image 10.3 x 18 cm

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The grace. Drawn by W. Hornsby. Engraved by J. Clark.

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Wellcome Collection 30537i

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