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MAY, B.
Pierre Mialhe.
Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba. [Havana].
A scarce album of brilliant chromolithographs of Cuba after the work of the island's master lithographer. "Havana in the early nineteenth century was a city of extraordinary wealth and culture. Although a Spanish colony, the elite of Cuba looked entirely to France for the luxuries. One aspect of this Francophile sophistication was a talented community of lithographers made up almost entirely of emigrant Parisian workmen. Mialhe, perhaps the foremost of these, produced a series of viewbooks of the island in a variety of formats after he moved there in 1836" (America Pictured to the Life). Bernardo May copied the views in the present work from Mialhe's lithographs printed by Louis Marquier for his extensive series Viage pintoresco al rededor de la Isla de Cuba (Havana, 1847-1848) and sold them in competition with Mialhe's originals at less than half the price. This resulted in Mialhe and Marquier suing May for copyright violation in November 1853; May denied plagiarism and escaped the charge on a technicality. Following that lawsuit, May reissued the prints in this set of 27 attractive chromolithographs.
- Published
- N.p., n.d. [ca.1855].
- References
- Not in Abbey or Tooley; Bobins 20.
- Plates
- 28
- Binding/Size
- S=8vo
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- N.p., n.d. [ca.1855].
- Ref
- 5362
Oblong 4to, chromolithographed pictorial title, folding lithographed plan within a border of tinted lithographed vignettes, folding litho map within similar borders, and 28 mostly tinted litho plates. Original red cloth decorated in blind and gilt. The maps and plates are mainly from Havana. Coloured plates in order: 1. Title page. 2. Morro y entrada Puerto de la Habana. 3. Vista de la Habana. Tomada des de la entrada del Puerto No.1 4. Vista de la Habana parte de Estramuros. Tomada des de la entrada del Puerto. 5. Habana. First vista tomada des de Casa-Blanca. 6. Habana. Second vista tomada des de Casa-Blanca. 7. Habana. Third vista tomada des de Casa-Blanca. 8. Plaza de Armas. 9. Puertas de Monserrate. 10. Teatro de Tacon y parte del Paseo de Isabel II. Vista tomada des de la puerta del Monserrate. 11. Fuente de la India en El Paseo de Isabell II. 12. Alameda de Paula. 13. El Quitrin. 14. El Panadero y El Malojero. 15. El Casero. 16. Valla de Gallos. 17. Dia de Reyes. The Holy Kings Day. 18. El Zapateado. (The national dance.) 19. Matanzas. 20. Morro y entrada del Puerto de Santiago de Cuba. 21. Vista general de la Ciudad y Montanas de Baracoa ( Costa del Norte). 22. Cercanias de Baracoa y modo de viajar de sus naturales. 23. Vista de la Iglesia Mayor y de la Ermita del Buen Viaje en San Juan de los Remedios. 24. Vivienda de los Pescadores de Esponjas. Bahia de Nuevitas. 25. Trinidad. 26. Corrida de Toros. 27. Vista de una Casa de Calderas. 28. Vista de una Vega de Tabaco.
