File:Ulpiano Checa, 1894.jpg

Identifier: scribnersmagazin16newy (find matches)
Title: Scribner's magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Fork and Wooden Ball used by the Wonnen at their Foot-races.
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Up- AN UNLUCKY MEETING^ PAINTED BY ULPIANO CHECA By Philip Gilbert Hamerion M. Checa is i^assionately fond ofpaiiitiiior orallopin^^ horses, which herepresents with extraordinary enerofv.The following*- short l)iotrraphy \\\\\ leadtlie reader up to the crisis in the artistslife, which suddenly developed thispower in him and his peculiar interestin this class ()f subject. He was born at Colnienar de Oreja, inthe province of ^Fadrid, on April 3,1860. Colnienar de Oreja is a village sit-uated at a distance of forty kilometres * See FroDtippiece. to the northeast of ^ladrid. It hadbelonged formerly to the region of La^lancha, and was then in the provinceof Toledo. It is a country of vineyardsand stone-quarries. The quarries havesupplied the stones for the principaledifices in ^ladrid. Colmenar musthave been formerly a great place forbees, as the name, in its Spanish signifi-cation, refers to beehives. Oreja is acorrugation from the name of the Em-peror Aurelmn. The names of M. Checas fath

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