(MEXICO) Hoffy Alfred; after T James Dunphy City of Mexico f

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(MEXICO.) Hoffy, Alfred; after T. James Dunphy. City of Mexico from the "Camino del Nina Perdita." Hand-colored lithograph, 15 x 23 inches; old 4-inch repaired closed tear in upper corner not touching image, tape remnants on verso, vertical fold, other minor wear and toning. Philadelphia: P.S. Duval, circa 1849

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The artist Thomas James Dunphy (1825-1866) was a private in the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment, which endured the Siege of Puebla that ended in October 1847, and then marched into occupied Mexico City in December 1847. He dedicated the print to his commander Captain John Bennett of Company F, the Philadelphia Light Guard. Two uniformed United States horsemen can be seen riding on the road toward the city, and the United States flag flies downtown. All is peaceful, except for a vaquero chasing two steers in the foreground. Hoffy was one of Philadelphia's leading lithographers, and the publisher Peter S. Duval was active for several decades, but was at this Ranstead Place address only from 1849 to 1855 per Peters in America on Stone. We find no other examples at auction or in OCLC, and only one other copy has been traced--at Anderson's Charles Peters auction, 8 April 1915, lot 177, which may even be the same as the present example.