A curated archive of historical images from the Philippines, including Tipos del País illustrations, vintage posters, and early maps of the Philippines. This collection documents the country's visual and cultural history, from the colonial period to the early modern era.
José Honorato Lozano was more than a painter. Through his Tipos del País watercolors, he became one of the most important visual chroniclers of 19th-century Philippine society.
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Tipos del País, literally "Types of the Country," are 19th-century miniature watercolor paintings that documented the people, dress, and social hierarchy of colonial Philippines. Produced for foreign traders and wealthy...
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For over three centuries, the plants of the Philippine archipelago were documented by hand by Jesuit missionaries, Spanish botanists, and Filipino artists. Many of those illustrations have been sitting in...
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In 1762, British forces occupying Manila seized the copper plates used to print the most consequential map the Philippines has ever produced and shipped them to England. The copies had...
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Maynila Archive is a curated collection of Philippine historical artworks, carefully restored and reproduced as museum-quality fine art prints.
Each piece is selected for its cultural value and visual strength, then printed using archival techniques to create timeless artwork for modern interiors.
Browse our growing collection of articles on Philippine historical art, colonial-era illustrations, vintage maps, and botanical prints.
José Honorato Lozano's Chino Pansitero captures the Chinese noodle vendor whose trade shaped Filipino cuisine in colonial Manila.
An Allamanda cathartica plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the golden trumpet of Philippine gardens.
A Delonix regia plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the flame tree planted across the Philippines.
An Erythrina variegata plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the dapdap coral tree of the Philippines.
A Luffa petola plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting the patola gourd cultivated across the Philippines.
José Honorato Lozano's Indios Llevando Hamacas records hammock bearers and a common form of colonial Philippine transport.
José Honorato Lozano's Indio con Carleton de Lena records the firewood carrier and his trade in colonial Philippine society.
José Honorato Lozano's Pagoda China records the religious architecture of the Chinese community in the colonial Philippines.
José Honorato Lozano's Esterior de una Gallera records the cockpit and its place in colonial Philippine social life.
Justiniano Asuncion's Un Indio Ordinario documents the everyday Filipino at the base of colonial society.
A Memecylon edule plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting a tropical shrub of Philippine forests.
A Musa troglodytarum plate from Flora de Filipinas, documenting a banana species found across the Philippines.
