Tag: 1800s
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Anonymous was a Filipino: Who Drew Mallat’s Philippine Plates? Juan Serapio Transfiguración Nepomuceno and His Son
I began this inquiry by asking who made the original illustrations for Jean-Baptiste Mallat’s Les Philippines (1846). I initially suspected José Honorato Lozano, but the documentary evidence points more directly to another Manila artist: Juan Serapio Transfiguración Nepomuceno. The atlas’s celebrated hand-colored plates are repeatedly described simply as “French illustrations” or credited exclusively to Adolphe…
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Félix Pardo de Tavera y Gorricho (Manila, 1859 – Paris, 1932)
Erratum: This post previously included a photograph I identified as Trinidad Hermenegildo Pardo de Tavera (T.H.) and Felix Pardo de Tavera in their youth, sourced from Alfred W. McCoy’s Anarchy of Families (Manila: ADMU Press, 1994). The image in fact depicts a younger generation of Pardo de Taveras from the early 20th century. I am…