The skirt takes up more than half the poster, and Machu Picchu sits behind it in teal. Mario Agostinelli (1915 to 2000) designed the poster around 1947. The drop-spindle, the Quechua textiles and the terraced stonework of the Inca citadel carry the Andean subject.
On the poster
A Quechua woman in a wide-brimmed flat hat and a voluminous cobalt-blue skirt stands in the foreground, a drop-spindle trailing a fine thread from her right hand. Behind her the terraced ruins of Machu Picchu are teal against a coral-pink sky, and colonial Cuzco fills the warm ochre middle distance. The design uses five flat, saturated colours. "CUZCO" is set in bold condensed navy type across a sage-green footer.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.


