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)
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
