N ° 15. Without legend (The butcher).

Lithograph on paper. Measurements: 16.6 x 23.9 cm / 6.53 x 9.4 in. Work in excellent condition. It is displayed framed. Moores, p. 93. 

Plate number 15 of the "Small Series" by Gregorio de Ibarra, or Gregorio Ybarra. A cart with enormous wheels advances on the cobblestone streets of Buenos Aires, roofed and prepared for the transfer of the meat from the slaughterhouse to the point of sale. Cattle hang from its ceiling. He is guided by a wagon who advances beside him. On the right margin of the scene we notice the carnage with the different cuts in sight.

Gregorio de Ibarra succeeded Bacle as the most important lithographer in Buenos Aires; addicted to the federal government of Juan Manuel de Rosas -he came to act as second chief of the "Battalion of Serenos"-, he published important albums, as well as maps and plans of this city. From his presses came out, among other works, the folder called "Costumes and customs of the Province of Buenos Aires" (recognized as the "Small Series of Ibarra") and the "Big Series"; so called by the size of the sheets and not by the quantity thereof. In the first, he recreated the plates edited by Bacle in his work entitled "Costumes and Customs of the Province of Buenos Aires”. Bacle, always attentive to the plagiarism of his works, had died the previous year. S. On. 5. DEM