[Brazil] — Joseph Léon Righini. Lithographs from Righini's Panorama do Pará em Doze Vistas, depicting scenes in Belém and around the large north Brazilian state

[BRAZIL] — JOSEPH LÉON RIGHINI

PANORAMA DO PARÁ EM DOZE VISTAS. PARA, BRAZIL: CONRAD WIEGANDT, CA. 1867

10 (of 12) printed lithographs (11 3/4 x 15 3/4 in.; 298 x 400 mm). The 10 plates include:

1. Theatro de N.S. Dapaz

2. Hospital D. Luizi

3. Largo da Trindade

4. Entrada do Arsenal de Marinha

5. Largo das Merces

6. Largo do Carmo

7. Largo do Quartel

8. Banco Commercial

9. Estrada de S. Jose

10. A Cathedral

Lithographs from Righini's Panorama do Pará em Doze Vistas, depicting scenes in Belém and around the large north Brazilian state

Joseph Leon Righini was an Italian painter who studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. He went to Brazil sometime around 1856 and settled in Maranhão and Pará. He was the first European to document, from direct observation, the landscapes of Northern Brazil and the Amazon rainforest in the mid-19th century. 

Panorama do Pará is relatively scarce, with no previous records at auction. It does not appear in WorldCat, nor in the primary Brazilian bibliographies.