"Dwellings of the Sponge Fishermen" (caption translation). This lithograph of Nuevitas bay in Cuba shows black men, women, children besides thatched roof houses which were suspended on poles over water. In the foreground, there is a boat with fishermen using large nets. Frédéric Mialhe (1810-c. 1861), also Federico Mialhe, was a French landscape painter and draughtsman. He went to Cuba on by invitation of the Real Sociedad Patriótica. He designed three sets of lithographs from 1838 to 1854. The publisher, Bernardo May, claimed ownership of this image and sold them under his own name. For a discussion on the image see Emilio Cueto, Mialhe's Colonial Cuba (Miami: The Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1994), p. 115.

"Plate XXIII" in Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba (Havana[?]: B. May y Ca., 1851[?]).

Mialhe, Frédéric

Spanish

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Caribbean--Cuba

"Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed July 27, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2164