Fray Marcos de Mena (3a)
Mexico City: Diaz de Leon y White, 1870. Lithograph. Image measures 14 1/2" x 10 1/2". Toning and damp-stains to margins, and one stain to lower margin not affecting the image. This dramatic print depicts a scene from 16th century Mexico, illustrating an three-part historical account titled "Fray Marcos de Mena". The account refers to the 1554 Shipwrecks on South Padre Island in Texas. Fray Marcos de Mena, a Dominican friar, is remembered as the sole survivor of the wreck..... More