38 1/2x43 3/4 inches, 97 3/4x111 cm. Barabino & Graeve, Genova. Condition B: extensively-overpainted text and corners, including image; repaired tears at edges, some into image.
The Palace Hotel in Montevideo was originally built in 1896 as a house, the Villa Sara. Tomas Clodomiro de Arteaga, owner of the newspaper La Nación, commissioned the project from Spanish architect Emilio Boix y Merino. It was purchased from the Arteaga family in 1907 by the Italian businessman Jaime Giacomo Molfino, who acquired the adjacent land in order to expand the facilities and transform it into a hotel. The Palace Hotel operated until 1944. Eventually, the property was sold to the Uruguayan State and became the location of the Sanitation Directorate of the Ministry of Public Works. For a time, the building housed units of the Armed Forces, until it was finally demolished in the 1970s.
