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![[picture: Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/tn/000-cover-q85-346x500.jpg "[picture: Front Cover, El Mundo Ilustrado]")
El Mundo Ilustrado was a Spanish periodical that was published from 1879 to 1892, aimed at wealthier middle-class people who knew about other countries. Originally published every two weeks, thirty-two pages at a time, the magazine included serialized novels as well as illustrations from famous artists and engravers; many of the articles were translated from other languages. There are even fold-out pictures.
The single undated volume that I have was sitting on a filing cabinet in a second-hand bookshop in Lisbon, Livraria Sá da Costa, which was next door to a hotel where I had to stay overnight because of a missed flight. Apparently there may have been coloured plates in the book at one time, but my copy lacks these.
Title: El Mundo Ilustrado
Published by: Espasa y Compañía
City: Barcelona
Date: 1883
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Basilica St. Anthony, Padua]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/232-basilica-saint-anthony-padua-q75-143x200.jpg "[picture: Basilica St. Anthony, Padua]")
The early fourteenth-century cathedral of Saint Anthony in Padua, drawn I think form the South-East. [$]
![[picture: Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/049-barefoot-boy-isolated-q75-85x200.jpg "[picture: Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables]")
Engraving of smiling urchin boy carrying sack and vegetables
A smiling boy, wearing somewhat tattered clothing and barefoot, stands holding perhaps turnips in one hand and with the other a sack over his shoulder. The clothes look warm enough for early Autumn, and [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: The insects look upon a giant dam]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/246b-giant-dam-q75-136x200.jpg "[picture: The insects look upon a giant dam]")
The insects look upon a giant dam
Two insects wearing top hats (as they do) sit on a leaf and look at a large dam, probably hydro-electric, in the distance. The dam is surmounted by a huge statue of a lion, and there’s a building at the [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: A Boy]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/049-barefoot-boy-q75-134x200.jpg "[picture: A Boy]")
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![[picture: Venus and Cupid]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/ElMundoIlustrado-1897/wm/big/277-venus-and-cupid-q75-241x200.jpg "[picture: Venus and Cupid]")
