DepartmentLatin America
Print, Incierto es el Presente y el Futuro del Perú, Niños que Trabajan porque si no lo Hacen, no Comen / Uncertain is the Present and Future of Peru, Children who Work Because if they Do Not Do So, they Do Not Eat
NameSerigraph (screen print)
Artist or maker
Miguel Det
(Peruvian)
Date2000-2011
Place madeLima, Lima, Peru, South America
MediumPaper, ink
Dimensions25 9/16 × 19 11/16 × 3/8 in. (65 × 50 × 1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, IFAF Collection, FA.2017.43.1
Object numberFA.2017.43.1
DescriptionSerigraph print on thick, white paper. Linework image depicting a street scene where a man on the left is having his shoes shined by a child on the ground and is talking to another child who is carrying a tray. There is a bus driving by on the right and a smaller child is clinging to the boy with the tray. At the top it reads, "Incierto es el Presente y el Futuro del Perú, Niños que Trabajan porque si no lo Hacen, no Comen".
18th century, C. Mather