The Pasig River met Manila Bay at a mouth that formed the harbor of the colonial capital, the point where river commerce and sea trade converged. This estuary was among the most important and busiest waterways in the 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 landscapes, architecture, and daily life of Philippine society. The Desembocadura del Río Pasig depicts the mouth of the Pasig River, recording the waterway where the river met the bay. 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 mouth of the Pasig River in the colonial capital.
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