3-065-983 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The performers in the bull-fight at Lisbon, 1874. 'In the centre of the page is shown the leading in of the azemola mule, laden with small darts and flags to be stuck in the poor bull. To the right and left of this we see an encounter between a bull and a cavalleiro, who evades the bull's onset and thrusts his slight lance into the beast's neck. Having done this, he is to break off the shaft, so as to leave the point and the flag, to be noted to his credit on the score of this cruel game...To the left, a mob of moços are teasing the bull to provoke his rage. To the right, we see them in the pega; one man has got between the bull's horns; the other men are holding down the bull by force applied to his back, hind quarters, and tail...the central figure, mounted, is that of the netto. On each hand a mounted cavalleiro supports him, but with some difference of costume; one having the courtier's dress of the last century; the other being equipped as a modern Portuguese sportsman to meet the bull. A bandarilheiro, in full state attire, and two of the bull's keepers, the abegano and a moço do curro, one smoking his pipe, are placed on the right-hand side of the page. On the left-hand side are one of the moços de forcado, or pitchfork-drivers.'. From "Illustrated London News", 1874.