Panorama de la Habana

Intaglio engraving on steel heightened in colors 52 x 114 cm (measure to the bowl) 69 x 130 cm (measure to the sheet) Inscribed lower right: "ED. WILLMANN PINXT & SCULPT PARIS 1855". Inscription at the bottom middle: "Admitted to the Universal Exhibition of Fine Arts, Paris 1855". Inscription at the bottom left: "Editores Rosendo Fernandez & C°. Habana. Copyright". Inscription at the bottom under the title: "Vista tomada desde Regla".  

Removal. A student of Carl Frommel and later a professor at the Frankfurt School of Fine Arts, Edouard Willman produced numerous panoramas, including those of the city of Paris and Havana, shown here from the municipality of La Regla. A flourishing city in the 19th century, Havana was then a modern metropolis whose prosperous economy was based primarily on a slave model. An earlier print of this engraving, dated 1854, indicates that the engraver worked from a daguerreotype view. This composition was presented at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1855 in the "Baden and Nassau" section, under the number 176.