Harth-terré, Emilio (1899- ) Collection,
1930s - 1970s

COLLECTION GUIDE

Prepared by Guillermo Náñez Falcón, June 1981.

The Collection consists of papers of Emilio Harth-terré, the noted Peruvian architect, related to the art and architecture of colonial Peru. The collection includes some professional correspondence; manuscripts of articles by Harth-terré and others; reprints and clippings; very extensive notes and transcripts of documents in various civil and church archives in Peru on gold- and silversmiths and Indian, black, and mestizo artisans and painters; also notes on various colonial public buildings, churches, convents, and monasteries.

Organization of the Collection

I. Correspondence (Box 1, Folder 1)

II. Manuscripts, notes, papers

A. "Arquitectura del Perú Virreinal" (Box 1, Folders 2-4)
B. Preservation and restoration (Box 1, Folders 5-6)
C. Art and Architecture (Box 1, Folders 7-12)
D. Arte (Box 2, Folders 1-7)
E. Towns (Box 2, Folders 8-17)
F. Buildings (Box 2, Folders 18-21B)
G. Miscellaneous (Box 2, Folders 22-26)

III. Printed material: reprints, articles, clippings

A. History of Peru (Box 3, Folders 1-3)
B. Art and architecture of Peru: general topics (Box 3, Folders 4-7; Box 4, Folders 1-12)
C. Art and architecture: cities (Box 5, Folders 1-14, Box 6, Folders 1-15)
D. Miscellaneous, not Peru (Box 7)

IV. Archival notes

A. Plateros (Boxes 8-10)
B. Artífices (Boxes 11-17)
C. Artífices de Cuzco (Box 18)
D. Cuadernillos: notes (Box 19)
E. Pintores (Box 20)
F. Matrimonios de artífices (Box 21, Folder 26)
G. Notas (Box 21, Folder 27)
H. Indios (Box 22, Folders 28A+B)
I. Artífices de Arequipa (Box 22, Folder 29)
J. Negros (Box 23)
K. Indices por temas (Box 24)
L. Indice de artífices (Box 25-Box 30, Folder 50)
M. Indice de plateros (Box 30, Folders 51-53)

Box 1, Folders 2-4
II. Manuscripts, notes, papers
A. "Arquitectura del Perú Virreinal" by Emilio Harth-terré. 1961. Chapters of an unpublished manuscript. In Spanish with English translations.

Box 1, Folders 5-6
B. Preservation and restoration
1. Of colonial architecture and art
2. "Diligencia preparatoria. Inspección ocular del Templo de esta Capital." 1934. Procès verbal of inspection of physical condition of the parish church of Santo Tomás by engineers Tejada and Canaza, together with cost estimate of necessary repairs.

C. Art and architecture
Box 1, Folder 7
1. Inca
Box 1, Folder 8
2. Baroque
Box 1, Folder 9
3. Arquitectura mestiza
Box 1, Folder 10
4. Arquitectura popular
Box 1, Folder 11
5. Arquitectura virreinal
Box 1, Folder 12
6. Arte y arqueología

D. Arte
Box 2, Folder 1
1. Escultura. Includes articles on Martínez Montañés, Martín de Oviedo, and "Un Criollo de México escultor en Lima."
Box 2, Folder 2
2. Pintura colonial. Includes articles on Cuzco style, the Iglesia de Santiago de Pomata, Raimundo Moanvasan.
Box 2, Folder 3
3. Puentes: "El histórico puente sobre el Río Apurimac."
Box 2, Folder 4
4. Retablos.
Box 2, Folder 5
5. Santos vestidos.
Box 2, Folder 6
6. Silver and silversmiths.
Box 2, Folder 7
7. Notes and lectures on Peruvian art.

E. Towns
Box 2, Folder 8
1. Arequipa
Box 2, Folder 9
2. Cuzco
Box 2, Folder 10
3. Huanuco: "La Vida espiritual en la Ciudad de Huanuco durante la Colonia, 1541-1615," by Graciela Pulgar Vidal.
Box 2, Folder 11
4. Juli
Box 2, Folders 12-16
5. Lima. Includes: "La Obra de Francisco Becerra en las Catedrales de Lima y Cuzco," by Harth-terré; "El Curso de las Catedrales" also about the cathedrals of Lima and Cuzco; "Un Tipo de quincha empleado en la Casa Rosada," by Filiberto Ramírez García.
Box 2, Folder 17
6. Puno: "La Catedral de Puno" by Xavier Moyssén

F. Buildings
Box 2, Folder 18
1. Casa de los diamantes en Ayacucho
Box 2, Folder 19
2. La Catedral de Lima
Box 2, Folder 20
3. Colegio de Santo Tomás
Box 2, Folder 21A
4. Hospitales en Lima
Box 2, Folder 21B
5. Nuestra Señora de la Merced, Lima

G. Miscellaneous
Box 2, Folder 22
1. Artisans - archival notes
Box 2, Folder 23
2. Artisans - articles re various colonial artisans
Box 2, Folder 24
3. Primer Congreso Histórico Municipal Interamericano, held in Havana, October 1942. Copies of papers presented by Bertha Morán, Jenaro Artiles, Gregorio B. Palacín Iglesias.
Box 2, Folder 25
4. "La Sirena mestiza, Reinterpretación americana de un mito clásico," paper by Leopoldo Castedo, presented at the Tulane University Symposia on the Art of Latin America, April 1972.
Box 2, Folder 26
5. "II Lección - La Provincia de Chucuito y Huamanga"

III. Printed material: reprints, articles, clippings
A. History - Peru
Box 3, Folder 1
1. Conquest
Box 3, Folder 2
2. Colonial period
Box 3, Folder 3
3. Germán Leguía y Martínez, Diccionario geográfico, histórico, estadístico, etc. del Departamento de Piura, I (Lima, 1914).

B. Art and architecture of Peru: general topics
Folder 4
1. Architects, artists: Gaspar de la Cueva
Folder 5
2. Renaissance style architecture
Folder 6
3. Baroque style architecture
Folder 7
4. Arte virreinal
Box 4, Folders 1-3
5. Pintura colonial. Folder 3 includes a reprint by Harth-terré, "Pinturas y pintores en Lima virreinal," 1963.
Box 4, Folders 4-5
6. Mesticismo
Box 4, Folder 6
7. Reliefs
Box 4, Folder 7
8. Retablos. Includes a reprint by Harth-terré, "Retablos limeños en el siglo XVI."
Box 4, Folders 8-10
9. Conservation and restoration: drafts of decrees, laws, official reports, clippings
Box 4, Folder 11
10. Modern architecture
Box 4, Folder 12
11. History of art and architecture, Peru

C. Art and architecture: cities
Box 5, Folder 1
1. Arequipa
Box 5, Folders 2-3
2. Ayacucho (includes 7 issues of the journal Huamanga, 1938-1940, published in Ayacucho)
Box 5, Folder 4
3. Cajamarca
Box 5, Folder 5
4. Chucuito
Box 5, Folder 6
5. Cocharcas
Box 5, Folders 7-8
6. Cuzco
Box 5, Folder 9
7. Huancavelica
Box 5, Folder 10
8. Huaraz: Convento de Hospitalidad, San José de Belén
Box 5, Folder 11
9. Ica
Box 5, Folder 12
10. Valle de Jauja
Box 5, Folders 13-14
11. Lima - general
Box 6, Folder 1
11a. Catedral de Lima
Box 6, Folder 2
11b. Edificio Brindusa
Box 6, Folder 3
11c. La Merced
Box 6, Folder 4
11d. Monestario de la Concepción
Box 6, Folder 5
11e. Monumentos históricos
Box 6, Folder 6
11f. Plaza Mayor
Box 6, Folder 7
11g. San Francisco
Box 6, Folder 8
11h. Miscellaneous churches
Box 6, Folder 9
12. Valle de Mautaro
Box 6, Folder 10
13. Miraflores
Box 6, Folder 11
14. "Pomata y Su Templo Monumental"
Box 6, Folder 12
15. Puno: cathedral
Box 6, Folder 13
16. Saña
Box 6, Folder 14
17. Torata
Box 6, Folder 15
18. Trujillo: Santo Domingo

D. Miscellaneous (not Peru)
Box 7, Folder 1
1. Colonial Latin America - general history
Box 7, Folder 2
2. History of art and architecture - Latin America and general
Box 7, Folder 3
3. La Paz - Church of San Francisco
Box 7, Folder 4
4. Art and architecture: Mexico, Guatemala, Caribbean
Box 7, Folders 5-6
5. Art and architecture: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Box 7, Folder 7
6. Art and architecture: Bolivia, Ecuador
Box 7, Folder 8
7. Biographies of architects and artists
Box 7, Folder 9
8. Jesuit missions
Box 7, Folder 10
9. "Las Bibliotecas de México, Guatemala, El Salvador, y Honduras," by Fermín Peraza (Havana, 1946)
Box 7, Folder 11
10. Miscellaneous

Archival notes
These are research notes compiled by Harth-terré from civil and church archives in Peru for his studies on Peruvian artists and artisans.

A. Plateros
Information from archival and printed sources on gold- and silversmiths in colonial Peru. The data are in the form of brief notes. The materials are arranged alphabetically by smiths and divided by centuries as indicated on the inventory list. For some smiths there may be a transcript of a document or documents in which his name appears in the material in Box 30.
Box 8, Folder 1
Plateros, 16th century
Box 9, Folder 2
Plateros, 17th century, A-L
Box 9, Folder 3
Plateros, 17th century, M-Z
Box 10, Folder 4
Plateros, 18th century, A-L
Box 10, Folder 5
Plateros, 18th century, M-Z

B. Artífices
Same as above for colonial artisans of Peru. For individual artisans there may be a transcript of a document in Boxes 25-28.
Box 11, Folder 6
Artífices, 16th century, A-L
Box 11, Folder 7
Artífices, 16th century, M-Z
Box 12, Folder 8
Artífices, 17th century, A-B
Box 12, Folder 9
Artífices, 17th century, C-Ch
Box 13, Folder 10
Artífices, 17th century, D-F
Box 13, Folder 11
Artífices, 17th century, G-H
Box 13, Folder 12
Artífices, 17th century, I-L
Box 14, Folder 13
Artífices, 17th century, M
Box 14, Folder 14
Artífices, 17th century, N-Q
Box 15, Folder 15
Artífices, 17th century, R-S
Box 15, Folder 16
Artífices, 17th century, T-Z
Box 16, Folder 17
Artífices, 18th century, A-Ch
Box 16, Folder 18
Artífices, 18th century, D-K
Box 17, Folder 19
Artífices, 18th century, L-M
Box 17, Folder 20
Artífices, 18th century, N-R
Box 17, Folder 21
Artífices, 18th century, S-Z

C. Artífices de Cuzco
Box 18, Folder 22

D. Cuadernillos
Notes: colonial artisans; techados y bóvedas de iglesias de Lima; various cofradías and gremios; derecho indígena; artisans working on various colonial convents and monasteries in Lima, including Encarnación, San Agustín, Santa Catarina de Siena, Santa Clara, del Carmen, del Prado, Santa Rosa, Santo Domingo, Descalzas, Trinidad.
Box 19, Folder 23, n.d.

E. Pintores. See explanatory note for Boxes 1-3 and 11-17.
Box 20, Folder 24
Pintores, 16th and 17 century
Box 20, Folder 25
Pintores, 18th century, n.d.

F. Matrimonios de Artífices
Box 21, Folder 26

G. Notas
Notes from various documentary sources on the cathedral in Lima, the Iglesia y convento de San Agustín, San Francisco de Asís, Iglesia de San Pedro, the Cabildo, and other colonial monuments in Lima, also on Juan de Grajales, a 16th century artisan.
Box 21, Folder 27

H. Indios
Notes arranged alphabetically by person's name. Additional notes on some of the persons are found in the Platero and Artífices boxes in the appropriate century.
Box 22, Folders 28A and 28B

I. Artífices de Arequipa.
Box 22, Folder 29.

J. Negros. Notes on black artisans in alphabetical order by name. Additional notes on some of the persons are found in the Plateros and Artífices boxes in the appropriate century.
Box 23, Folders 30A and 30B.

K. Indice por Temas. Notes on churches and public buildings in Lima and in other cities of Peru; streets and street names; building materials and architectural devices (roofs, vaulting, supports, etc).
Box 24, Folder 31. Indice A-C
Box 24, Folder 32. Indice C-L
Box 24, Folder 33. Indice M-Z

L. Indice de Artífices. Transcripts of documents in which appear the names of artisans. The documents are of various sorts--property sales, slave sales, apprentice agreements, promissory notes, powers of attorney, agreements, wills.
These differ from the data contained in boxes 11-17 in that these are entire documents rather than notations from manuscripts and printed sources. There are additional notes on individual artisans in Boxes 11-17.
Box 25.
Folder 34. Indice de artífices. 16th century, A-F
Folder 35. Indice de artífices. 16th century, G-L
Folder 36. Indice de artífices. 16th century, M-Q
Box 26.
Folder 37. Indice de artífices. 16th century, R-Z
Folder 38. Indice de artífices. 17th century, A-B
Folder 39. Indice de artífices. 17th century, C-D
Box 27.
Folder 40. Indice de artífices. 17th century, E-G
Folder 41. Indice de artífices. 17th century, H-L
Folder 42. Indice de artífices. 17th century, M
Folder 43. Indice de artífices. 17th century, N-Q
Box 28.
Folder 44. Indice de artífices. 17th century, R-S
Folder 45. Indice de artífices. 17th century, T-Z
Folder 46. Indice de artífices. 18th century, A-Z
Folder 47. Indice de artífices. 18th century, duplicates
Box 29.
Folder 48. Indice de artífices. 16th century, duplicates
Folder 49. Indice de artífices. 17th century, duplicates
Box 30.
Folder 50. Indice de artífices. 17th century, duplicates

M. Indice de Plateros. Same sort of transcripts of documents as Boxes 25-29. These are additional notes on individual smiths on Boxes 8-10.
Box 30
Folder 51. Plateros. 16th century, A-Z
Folder 51. Plateros. 17th century, A-Z
Folder 51. Plateros. 18th century, A-Z

V. Libros de Cabildos de Lima, Indices, Años 1535-1601. 2 v. 1946. Notes for the compilation of this two-volume index and for a third unpublished volume.
Box 31. Proper name and place name index card, A-J.
Box 32. Same, L-Z.
Box 33. Subject index card, A-Z
Box 34. Three notebooks, The index cards were alphabetized and collated and entered into notebooks.
Box 35. The two published volumes.

ADDENDA
Oversize
Box 36
Folder 1.
VI. Typescript bibliography of works of urban planning handwritten notes by Harth-terre, c. 1935.
VII. Cities and towns-- Peru. A. Architectural plans for urban development.
1. Lima
Folder 2. a) Plans, some original , signed by Harth-terre and others in his style.
Folder 3. b) Original and printed plans, some signed
Folder 4.
2. Peru
Folder 5. B. Maps -- Lima and other cities.
Folder 6. C. Clippings. D. Photos, plates and illustrations. Not all photos are identified, but all are apparently of Peru.
VIII. Cities and Towns--not Peru.
Folders 8-9 A. Maps -- US, South America, World.
Folder 10. B. Clippings--urban settlement
Folder 11. C. Photos

LAL Flat File.
IX. Architectural plans and drawings
Folder 1. A. Identified by city. Two or more pieces.