El casero

"The Street Vendor" (caption translation). This lithograph shows a man on a horse selling fruits, vegetables and fowl from the top of his horse to a black woman; more black people in the background sitting on barrels. 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. 99.

Image Title

El casero

RegID

SI-OB-844

Date

1850s

Title

El casero

Source

"Plate XIV" 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 also Le Magasin Pittoresque (Paris: n. p., 1857), p. 388; and Maturin Ballou, History of Cuba (Boston: Phillips, Sampson and Company, 1854), facing p. 201.

Researchers

Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Lesbia O. Varona; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Last Updated

27-Jan-11; 26-Aug-19

Identifier

Album-14

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