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A pair of early Spanish walnut and tooled leather chairs,
£680 the pairA pair of early Spanish walnut and tooled leather chairs,
the back tooled and parcel-gilt and secured with metal disks, the arm rests over-scrolled, united by ornate panelled front stretcher piece, the faded and worn over-stuffed leather seat ornamented with later tasseled fringes,£680 the pair -
La Mosca Roja, Spanish political poster.
£250La Mosca Roja, Spanish political poster.
A framed Spanish political poster depicting a moustachoied figure, possibly Fransisco Serrano, 1st Duke of La Torre. He is shown dressed in harlequinade and mounted on a white hare proffering a scroll of reactionary and traditionalist demands while dark smoke, containing 'grand hopes' escapes from a breach in his skull. Cannons point out from behind his ears and The Pope is secreted between his eyes. Printed in Barcelona in the 1880s.£250 -
La Mosca Roja, ‘La Caminito de Moscou’
£250La Mosca Roja, ‘La Caminito de Moscou’
A framed chromolithographic Spanish political cartoon of the 1880s showing a heavily armed figure walking through a minefield towards the domes and towers of the Moscow Kremlin with a bag of Seville oranges on his hip. A cloud of disembodied demonic heads are ranged in a wintry sky while the word 'Nihilism' is written in smoke across the heavens. In 1881 Tsar Alexander II had been assassinated in St Petersburg by the Revolutionary Socialist and Nihilist secret society, Zemlya i volya.£250 -
La Mosca
£250La Mosca
A framed Spanish political poster depicting a crowned female figure, draped in the flag of Spain, loomed over by a demonic ghoul.£250
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