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Colección de trages de Manila tanto antiguos como modernos, de toda clase de yndias

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Open book Colección de trages de Manila tanto antiguos como modernos, de toda clase de yndias

Title Colección de trages de Manila tanto antiguos como modernos, de toda clase de yndias

Creator Domingo, Damián, approximately 1795-approximately 1832

Date 1827-1832

Place Philippines

Subjects Costume, Filipinos

Description Title inscribed on a shield within an ornamental oval border.
Dates based on probable date of Domingo's appointment as director of the Academia de Dibujo by the Real Sociedad Económica of Manila. Cf. Filipino master Damián Domingo / Stephen Ongpin. Manila : Intramuros Administration, 1983, p. 9; and Carlos Quirino, "Damián Domingo: First Eminent Filipino Painter," Philippine Studies 9 (January 1961): 96.
Drawings signed in lower right corner: Damianus Dominicus pinxit.
Images within black border, 36 x 23 cm.
Contemporary paper binding, sewn; reinforced with cloth tape.
In portfolio-style phase box: "Philippine costume. Domingo."
Forms part of the Edward E. Ayer Art Collection (Newberry Library)

Summary Album of watercolor drawings by Damián Domingo, probably commissioned between 1827 and 1832 by Rafael Daniel Babon, illustrating the native dress of "indios" and "mestizos" from widely diverse social classes and professions in Manila and some of the surrounding areas, including Pasig, Pampanga, Iloco, Pangasinan, and Bisaya.

Biographical/Historical Note Philippine painter from the first third of the 19th century, known as the "Father of Filipino painting." Domingo was born around 1795, either in Spain to Spanish parents, or in the Manila suburb of Tondo to a Filipina mother and a Spanish father. As a renowned and gifted portrait artist and miniaturist with a photographic eye, Domingo ran a private art school in Tondo which was later incorporated into the Academia del Dibujo by the Real Sociedad Económica. During Domingo's tenure at the Academy--he was appointed professor in 1826, and became director in 1827--he supported racial equality in the arts by establishing an unbiased admissions procedure, and instituting examinations to judge the ability of the students. Domingo's early death around 1832, possibly from tuberculosis, was a tragic loss to the growing art movement in the Philippines at that time. Extant works include three small oil paintings on religious themes, and three albums of watercolors.

Extent 1 album (29 drawings) : watercolor ; 42 x 27 cm

Format Drawings, Watercolors

Archival Collection Title Edward E. Ayer Collection

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Call Number Ayer Art Domingo

BibID 138960

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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