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