c. 1890Buenos Aires
Casa Rosada
Unidentified photographer. Period photograph of the Casa de Gobierno.
Street photograph
c. 1890·Buenos Aires
Casa Rosada
Unidentified photographer. Period photograph of the Casa de Gobierno.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
The Casa de Gobierno photographed from the plaza: portico, balconies, trees, a monumental civic pile in Buenos Aires. A camera in South America, late nineteenth century. Present status: surviving. Do not treat a European palace as a substitute for this plate.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Casa Rosada (Casa de Gobierno)
- Region
- South America
- Documented completion
- Present Italianate massing by the 1880s–90s, on a site occupied by earlier customs and government fabric.
- Architect
- Several campaigns; Francesco Tamburini among the principal late-nineteenth-century designers.
- Present status
- Surviving — The building still stands on Plaza de Mayo. Exact year of this scan is not fixed — recorded as about 1890.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan; related views are held by the Archivo General de la Nación Argentina (inventory series of the Casa de Gobierno, late nineteenth century).
- License
- Public domain (Argentina; nineteenth-century photograph).