Keeping, Saving, and Remembering: Manuel Doroteo Carvajal’s Trompe l’Oeil Autograph Drawings as Elements of Rhetorical Visual Strategy during the Colombian Civil Wars of the 1850s and 1860s

Abstract

Manuel Doroteo Carvajal (1819–72) was a mid-nineteenth-century Colombian painter, and author of two sketchbooks currently archived at the Museo Nacional de Colombia that contain more than one hundred drawings including portraits, genre scenes, landscapes, illustrations for children’s fables, flowers, and fruits. The first journal is dated July 1848 and ends at the beginning of the 1870s. Among his approaches to the visual, Carvajal included several trompe l’oeil drawings in both albums.