Location: Venezuela
Images: A woman riding a galloping horse; four rheas (Sp. ñandú; Por. ema); clouds over plains.
Comment: Illustration of the Venezuelan novel, Doña Bárbara (1929) by Rómulo Gallegos (1884 - 1969). What is this illustration's theme? What is is communicating? Compare to #44 and #45.
Cultural humanities: (A) Lo ctónico ; (B) literature illustration; (C) Latin American literatura nacionalista.