SPAIN Fiestas Festival of Pilar Pillar Romaria

Description: Festival of Pilar Another Quality Print from Martin2001 Print Specifics : Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique printYear of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1858 Publisher: William Collins Sons & Co. Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair) Overall age toning of paper, darker along the edges.Dimensions: 8.5 x 11.5 inches, (21,5 x 28,5 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the image.Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)Reverse side: BlankNote: Green color around the print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. Original Narrative: The festival of Pilar, a romaria, is a fete held in honour of some saint, generally in an open space before the village church. Here booths and stalls are erected for the sale of fried fish, sweet cakes, and prints of the saint with the latter of which the visitors adorn their hats on their return home. The people from the neighborhood for several miles round assemble in their gayest costumes, the young men with their low- crowned, broad brimmed hats, set tauntingly on one side, their jackets thrown over one shoulder to exhibit their bright-coloured waistcoats and white shirt-sleeves, most of them carrying their three-stringed guitars in their hands; the young women in a far greater variety of dress-some with a white handkerchief thrown over the head, and a gay one over the neck, with or without any cloak ; others wearing low-crowned broad-brimmed hats, from beneath which the most coquettish cork-screw ringlets appear. Then again others have high-crowned ponderous black hats, bedecked with lowers and ribands, and a bright shawl worn on the shoulders. But the most magnificent of all are the farmers' wives, with the last-mentioned style of hat, and a blue riding habit, their necks literally covered with gold chains, and large gold rings of filigree work pendant from their ears. They generally arrive on the back of a mule, donkey, or horse, their lords following on one of those animals behind them. The older men wear long blue coats, carrying a thin stick of considerable length in their hands. Thence the citizens--the wife with a bonnet of a far from fashionable shape : for want of style a profusion of flowers makes amends -a bright shawl covering all other defects-either on foot, or on a pack- saddle; the husband sometimes, if they are not blessed with offspring, on a small donkey, or else carrying, with paternal solicitude, his last infant in his arms, and leading one or two other little cherubs by the hands ; the mother and the maid-servant accompanied by a like number each. The people on these occasions perform a small quantity of praying, a good deal of eating and drinking, and a vast quantity of dancing and singing. Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998.Five-star service.

Price: 24 USD

Location: Manassas, Virginia

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