Cagayan, in the northeastern Luzon valley, was a region of tobacco cultivation and distinct local architecture during the Spanish colonial period. The houses of its towns reflected the materials and building traditions of the rural Philippines.
José Honorato Lozano documented this scene as part of his Tipos del País watercolors, a body of work produced in the mid-nineteenth century recording the costumes, occupations, and daily life of Philippine society. The Casa de un Pueblo de Cagayan depicts a house in a Cagayan town, recording the rural domestic architecture of the region. Lozano worked primarily in Manila and produced illustrations that served as visual records of Philippine society for both local and foreign audiences. His work is considered among the most detailed and culturally specific visual documentation of the Philippines in the Spanish colonial period.
This print preserves a record of rural domestic architecture in colonial-era Cagayan.
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