In colonial Philippine society, the death of a young child was marked by a distinct funeral custom. The entierro de un párvulo, the burial of an infant, was treated not as mourning alone but as the passage of an innocent soul, often accompanied by music and white garments rather than black.
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 customs, costumes, and daily life of Philippine society. The Entierro de un Parbulo depicts the funeral procession for a child, recording a religious and social custom of the colonial period. 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 a funeral custom that marked colonial Philippine social and religious life.
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