Mules of the Plaza de Toros – Vintage Wall Art
![Mules of the Plaza de Toros, [between 1860 and 1870] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8a798d80ea3c-L.webp)
(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 Mules of the Plaza de Toros in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Mules of the Plaza de Toros
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Mules of the Plaza de Toros is a color lithograph from the 1860s, numbered "No. 3" in its record, that turns the bullring's grim routine toward its unglamorous working animals. In Spanish bullfights, after a bull was killed or disabled, teams of mules were hitched to drag the carcass out of the arena, and the spectacle of these animals hauling the dead bull out in front of the crowd was a familiar part of the afternoon. The print's subject is therefore the stagecraft behind the corrida rather than the matador, and it is worth looking at how the artist frames the mules as the real workers of the ring.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1870] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 3. |
| Subjects | Bullfighting--Spain--1860-1870. Mules--Spain--1860-1870. Animal teams--Spain--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,608 × 3,811 px · prints to 15 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220342 |
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