El panadero y el malojero
"The Baker and Fodder Seller" (caption translation). This lithograph depicts a baker and his slave, the mozo, carrying a basket marked “panadero” (baker). On the right, the fodder seller, Malojero, was with his slave. Maloja is a Cuban word, often used to describe fodder from maize, but it can also refer to fodder from grasses. 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. Samuel Hazard visited Cuba around 1866. He reproduced this image into a b/w illustration in his book and describes the mozo as someone "who accompanies his master, the baker ['panadero'] through the streets, to dispose of his supply; or, if he has a regular set of customers, goes alone from place to place, carrying his load of bread. . . on his [head]; the bags hanging from his arms are made of plaited palm leaf and are filled with rolls. . . many of them are the imported slaves of Africa, who have bought their freedom, while others, again, belong to owners who let them their time, allowing them to pursue any vocation they choose, only requiring them to pay so much per day out of their earnings" (p. 173). For a discussion on the image see Emilio Cueto, Mialhe's Colonial Cuba (Miami: The Historical Association of Southern Florida, 1994), p. 97-99.
Image Title
El panadero y el malojero
RegID
SI-OB-843
Date
1850s
Title
El panadero y el malojero
Source
"Plate XIII" in Album pintoresco de la isla de Cuba (Havana[?]: B. May y Ca., 1851[?]).
Language
Spanish
Item sets
Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Cuba--Havana
Reproduced In
See Samuel Hazard, Cuba with Pen and Pencil (Hartford, Conn.: Hartford Publishing Company, 1871), p. 173 and 195; For a similar b/w engraved scene similar to this one, accompanying an article on markets in Cuba, but which focuses on the Bread Seller, see Le magasin pittoresque (Paris; n. p., 1857), p. 389.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Raol Fernandez; Lesbia O. Varona; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
27-Jan-11; 26-Aug-19
Identifier
Album-13