Hanging of Tomás Gutiérrez, Lima, after 1872

cabinet photograph

Cabinet photograph, albumen print; Hanging of Tomás Gutiérrez, Lima, after 1872; collected by Captain Richard C. Mears (1829-1899) during his travels as a shipmaster to South America; image of a crowd in front of the Plaza de Armas (also known as Plaza Mayor), in Lima, Peru, in front of the Cathedral, watching the hanging of Tomás Gutiérrez (who ordered the murder of President Jose Balta of Peru) and his brother in 1872; handwritten on front "V. L. Richardson ??/ Fotografor/ Lima"; handwritten on back "Hanging of Gutierres + Bro./ in Lima July 1872".