Education in colonial Manila was provided by institutions run by the religious orders, where colegiales, the students of these schools, were drawn largely from the elite. Their dress and standing marked them as a distinct group in colonial society.
José Honorato Lozano documented these figures 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 Colegiales de Manila depicts the students of Manila's colleges in their dress, recording a social group of the colonial capital. 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 the students of colonial Manila's colleges.
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