Everyday life, celebrations and religious festivities. The image shows the representation of a Tarasca from the Corpus Christi procession
Everyday life, celebrations and religious festivities. The image shows the representation of a Tarasca from the Corpus Christi procession
Everyday life, celebrations and religious festivities. The image shows a Tarasca for the Corpus Christi procession of 1744 in Madrid
Drawing of “Máquina para trillar las mises” by Lorenzo Sánchez Mansilla. It is an illustration of the work: “Dissertación de la máquina para trillar”, by Juan Cristóbal Manzanares
Everyday life. The image shows a painting depicting the formalisation of a woman’s dowry contribution. The work, entitled “The Bride’s Dowry”, is by José Gallegos y Arnosa.
Privateering patent granted by Charles III, which is part of a set of several patents he granted around 1771. The upper part shows the side view of a ship which, together with the border headed by the Royal Arms, serves as ornamentation for these patents. The patent was engraved by Hipólito Recarte.
Image representative of the greatness of Spain and its monarchy.
Representation of cochineal cultivation and production. The image shows a picture of a cultivated cactus, where the mealybug has swarmed well.
The image depicts the plan and section of a ship engaged in the black slave trade. The document is written in English and published in London.
The image depicts shares in the Real Compañía de San Fernando de Sevilla, in favour of Pedro de Astrearena, a resident of Madrid, worth 250 pesos each.
The image shows the layout of one of the twelve reverberatory furnaces for quicksilver metallurgy that were built in the Calle de Santa Ana of the Real de minas de Azogue de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in New Spain. These furnaces were made on the outside of brick and lime, to resist water, and on the inside of brick and clay, to preserve the fire. The picture explains how they worked.