SPAIN.
[Illustration]
A SPANISH OVERCOAT.
[Illustration: Our Artist, upon his arrival in "Sunny Spain," is
overtaken in the Pyrenees, on the French Frontier, by a terrific
snow-storm, and is compelled to provide himself, at BAYONNE, with an
Overcoat of the Country.]
HACKMEN IN SPAIN.
[Illustration: Portraits of the three Hackmen, who (upon our arrival at
the City of BURGOS, in the dead of night,) meet us at the Rail Road
station, and propose accompanying us to our Hotel.]
A CITIZEN OF VALLADOLID.
[Illustration: Here is a faithful portrait of the Old Party who entered
the cars at VALLADOLID; carrying with him a few travelling
conveniences.]
A MADRID HAT.
[Illustration: This is a Spanish Dandy at the Grand Opera House in
MADRID:--first, with his cigarette and new Hat of the period; second,
after his Hat had been sat upon by a fat old Señora, during the third
act of Lucia di Lammermoor.]
LOTTERIES IN SPAIN.
[Illustration: Nearly all the Lottery tickets in Spain are publicly sold
in the streets by Beggars: and _this_ is the sort of Vagabond in MADRID
to whom Our Artist confided $16 for a ticket that won a prize of $5.]
SIGHT-SEEING IN SPAIN.
[Illustration: There are so many hundred apartments to be seen in the
famous PALACE OF THE ESCORIAL, that Our Artist is obliged to follow his
Brigand of a Guide rather rapidly, in order to view them all in one
day.]
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
[Illustration: Our Artist sees from the car-window, at a Rail-Road
Station near Toledo, what, at a first glance, appears to be a statue of
Napoleon Bonaparte,--but: (_see next page_.)]
A RAIL-ROAD OFFICIAL.
[Illustration:---- the Statue suddenly becomes animated and revolves;
and the side-view reveals a CIVIL GUARD, with carbine and knapsack
beneath his big military cloak.]
ARCHITECTURE IN CORDOVA.
[Illustration: A picturesque little half Moorish and half Spanish
dwelling house, in the Calle Jesus Maria; with a couple of Priests in
earnest discussion.]
BALCONIES IN SEVILLE.
[Illustration: Sketch of a private residence in Calle San Pablo; from
the upper Balcony of which, Our Artist had a rose thrown to him, while a
cloaked Assassin of a probable Lover, glowered savagely at him from the
doorway.]
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA.
[Illustration: The Barber of Seville, according to Rossini's Opera, and
according to the way in which he is popularly believed to disport
himself.--(_See next page._)]
A BARBAROUS PROCEEDING.
[Illustration: The Barber of Seville, as he actually exists in that
city, and precisely as he appeared while operating upon our Artist, one
day, in the Calle de las Sierpes.]
A CAFÉ IN SEVILLE.
[Illustration: Our Artist discovers, one day, in the Calle Tunidores,
not exactly the most fashionable Café in SEVILLE, but a Café glorying in
the ambitious name of JULIUS CÆSAR!]
TYPES OF SPANISH CHARACTER.
[Illustration: Fellow Passengers in the Diligence to MALAGA--one, a
corpulent and famous Bull-Fighter, and the other, an envious and
admiring follower of the same ennobling Profession.]
SPANISH STAGE-COACHES.
[Illustration: The light and graceful antediluvian Diligence that
transported us up the Sierra Nevada Mountains, from MALAGA To LOJA.]
LOCOMOTION IN SPAIN.
[Illustration: This sketch is an attempt to display the general
character and construction of one of the seven Mules that drew our
Diligence over the hills from MALAGA To LOJA.]
THE SPANISH GUITAR.
[Illustration: A characteristic little sketch of a Guitar Player, in the
window of a second-story dwelling, on the Alemeda de Verano, at
GRENADA.]
BEGGARS IN SPAIN.
[Illustration: Our Artist, having in a generous moment, distributed a
handful of copper coins to the poor of GRENADA, finds himself,
thereafter, in all his strolls about the ALHAMBRA, at the Head of such a
Procession as this!]
THE ALHAMBRA.
[Illustration: Sketch of the famous Gate of Justice, the principal
modern Entrance to the far-famed Moorish Palace of THE ALHAMBRA--with a
little Spanish Flirtation going on in the corner.]
THE ALHAMBRA.
[Illustration: Outline Sketch of an Ancient Moorish Well, inside the
enclosure of the ALHAMBRA; with a bit of the Old Wall.]
A SPANISH VEGETABLE MARKET.
[Illustration: A sketch in GIBRALTAR--This fellow was seen wandering
around the streets, selling vegetables to the natives, and steering his
Donkey by the tail.]