3-053-784 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches in Spain: a street of Barcelona, 1873. 'The chief city of Catalonia, from which proceed many telegrams of the Carlist successes in the north of Spain, is pleasantly situated on the eastward or Mediterranean shore of that country, about a hundred miles south of the Pyrenees, which guard its frontier, and on the verge of a fertile plain, watered by the river Llobregat, and girdled by green hills. Barcelona is a manufacturing and commercial town, as well as the capital of its province, the see of an Archbishop, and the centre of a military and a judicial administrative district, but its population, which was once 140,000, has been reduced by the troubles of civil war. It boasts of a fabulous antiquity. It is said to have been founded by Hercules...Many of the ancient houses, in the narrow and winding streets of the old town, have a picturesque aspect, like some parts of Rouen. Our Artist's sketch is a characteristic example of this kind of street scenery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.