El vendutero – Antique Wall Art
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
Description
This rare antique lithograph captures El vendutero in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Titled "El vendutero," this lithograph shows a street seller of secondhand goods, a figure common in mid-19th-century Mexico City. M. Murguia drew it for *Los Mexicanos pintados por sí mismos*, a book of lithographed portraits of everyday urban types, and the 1855 date places it in the years when such books were popular for recording local customs. The record's subject tags, which include auctions and street vendors, point to the trade in used goods that the figure represents. The record is an unverified catalog entry, so details beyond the title, date, and artist should be checked against the source.
| Created / published | 1855 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Notes | Lithograph by M. Murguia. Illus. in: Los Mexicanos pintadors por si mismos. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mexico; Occupations; Auctions; Books and reading; Street vendors. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 906 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-147666 |
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