Arte e Historica. Cuadros Históricos de Episodios de la Independencia pintados por Diógenes Héquet.
Montevideo: Librería y Papelería del Ateneo, Sierra y Antuña, 1896. 55 pp. 12mo. Disbound. First edition. 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. Item #39898
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.
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