Lot of 51 drawings with bullfighting scenes from the late 19th century by DANIEL PEREA Y ROJAS (1834 - 1909), JOSÉ MARÍA CHAVES ORTIZ (1839 - 1903) and ÁNGEL LIZCANO (1846 - 1929) for the bullfighting magazine "La Lidia "This is an important and interesting private collection made up of 205 lots of drawings with bullfighting themes divided in four blocks. These drawings are made by three well known Spanish artists from the second half of the XIX century and the beginning of the XX century: _x000D_ _x000D_ - DANIEL PEREA Y ROJAS (1834 - Madrid, 1909): painter and draftsman, deaf-mute by birth, who cultivated, among others, the genre of bullfighting painting. For many years he "gave life" to the newspaper "La Lidia" with his illustrations, for which he stood out and was described in the press of the time as "the best artist of bullfighting scenes of the time". - JOSE MARIA CHAVES ORTIZ (Seville, 1839 - 1903): Spanish painter and illustrator, trained at the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was a disciple of Eduardo Cano and Manuel Barrón. He was mainly dedicated to genre and, above all, to bullfighting themes. - ANGEL LIZCANO MONEDERO (Alcazar de San Juan, 1846 - Leganes, 1929): Spanish painter, engraver and illustrator. He cultivated portraits, popular and historical-literary themes as well as bullfighting. His facet as an illustrator was very fruitful: he made more than eight hundred drawings for all kinds of magazines, books and posters; he specialized in illustrating bullfighting publications such as "La Lidia" and "La Semana Ilustrada", but he also collaborated assiduously in "La Ilustración Española y Americana"; among other books he illustrated the "Episodios Nacionales" by Benito Pérez Galdós. _x000D_ All these pieces are works made for the bullfighting magazine "La Lidia", where, as mentioned above, the three artists collaborated. That is to say, we are in front of the original drawings that later would be chromolithographed to appear in the periodical publications of such a well-known magazine. _x000D_ _x000D_ At a time when up to a hundred bullfighting newspapers were published in Spain, the magazine "La Lidia" is considered the most important in the history of Spanish bullfighting journalism. It published up to 20,000 copies. Its publications were periodic, unlike its competitors, most of them short-lived and always during the bullfighting fair seasons. "La Lidia" stood out for its modern layout and presentation, for the quality of its color chromolithographic prints and because its editors and collaborators were well known bullfighting personalities of the time. _x000D_. This bullfighting magazine was founded by the Madrid industrialist Julián Palacios Salinero, owner of a lithographic establishment in Madrid, to which he provided the most modern technical advances, introducing color typographic prints. _x000D_ _x000D_. Its first publication was a prospectus on Sunday, April 2, 1882, as a "bullfighting magazine illustrated with chromos". Its copies appeared the day after each bullfight held in Madrid and consisted of two pages of three-column typescript and printed and another two inside pages of stamped illustrations. _x000D_. _x000D_. Its content focused on the bullfights not only in Madrid but also in the main fairs of other bullrings. In addition to these chronicles, it published critical letters, editorials and articles, data and anecdotes of ancient and modern bullfighting, statistics, brief news, epigrams and some advertising. It also published some extraordinary issues and an annual calendar. The magazine also had correspondents in the provinces and had representatives in Lisbon, Mexico, Veracruz and Buenos Aires. _x000D_ _x000D_ The magnificent chrome lithographs based on drawings made by renowned artists of the time, as is the case of the present collection -in the absence of bullfighting photography- "constitute one of the most beautiful collections" of the suertes of bullfighting, as well as portraits of bullfighters and ranchers or bullfighting scenes and customs that marked the era. _x000D_ _x000D_ On November 26, 1900, it published its last issue, after nineteen years of uninterrupted publication. _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Description of each of the lots:_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ - Number 1_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ JOSÉ MARÍA CHAVES ORTIZ (Seville, 1839 - 1903) _x000D_ _x000D_ "Lagartijo putting banderillas al quiebro"_x000D_ _x000D_ Charcoal drawing on cardboard_x000D_x000D_ Date: 30/07/1883_x000D_x000D_ 34 x 51 cm_x000D_x000D_Date: 30/07/1883_x000D_Signed Signed in the lower right corner_x000D_x000D_ _x000D_x000D_ Number 2_x000D_x000D_ Number 2 - Number 2_x000D_x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ JOSÉ MARÍA CHAVES ORTIZ (Seville, 1839 - 1903) _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ _x000D_ Number 2 "Ribs composing the bull's head for the volapié"_x000D_ _x000D_ Drawing in pencil, charcoal, nib and aquatint on cardboard_x000D_x000D_ "Costillares composing the bull's head for the volapié"_x000D_ Date: 26/11/1883_x000D_x000D_ 30,5 x 47 cm_x000D_x000D_Date: 26/11/1883_x000D_Signed Signed in the lower left corner_x000D_x000D_ Presents desp