According to Dr Manuel Fernandez Canque, this print can be dated around 1860. It bears a dedication from George Smith to His Excellency the President of Peru Don Jose Rufino Echenique. President Echenique held office between 1851 and 1855. George Smith was a British engineer to whom the Peruvian government entrusted the task of surveying the Tarapaca province in the 1830s –then in Southern Peru now in Northern Chile - with the view of developing nitrate exports. This task was performed together with William Bollaert, a distinguished British scientist and explorer who published an important account of all those explorations in Tarapaca: William Bollaert, 'Antiquarian, Ethnological and Other Researches in New Granada, Equador, Peru and Chile' (London, Trübner & Co., 1860) in which this print is reproduced on page 163.