Last year for Cinco de Mayo, we presented two lithographs by artist Constantino Escalante, from the 1867 run of the Mexican comic periodical, La Orquesta. This year, three more. These all were published during the French intervention period in Mexico, during the reign of Emperor Maximilian. No translation (I’d only mess up in the attempt). But even for those of us unable to read these, the beauty of Escalante’s artwork is undebatable.

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Below, the Escalante cartoon lithographs shown last year, also from the 1867 run of La Orquesta.

Doug Wheeler