Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas
"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.
Image Title
Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas
RegID
SI-OB-846
Date
1850s
Title
Vivienda de los pescadores de esponjas
Source
"Plate XXIII" 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
Reproduced In
For a b/w engraving see Le Magasin Pittoresque (Paris, 1857), p. 333.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Lesbia O. Varona; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
27-Jan-11; 27-Aug-19
Identifier
Album-23