Issue date: 03 May, 2017
HISTORY OF SPAIN G&R
From 2000 to 2002, Correos issued four mini sheets illustrated by Gallego and Rey, as part of the Correspondencia Epistolar Escolar series dedicated to the History of Spain.
They featured historical Spanish figures and events, from Atapuerca to the first Bourbons, including the Catholic Monarchs and the painter Diego de Velázquez.
This year two new block sheets are being issued, dedicated to the 19th and 20th centuries, respectively. Each includes 12 vignettes and one stamp.
19th Century. Each of the vignettes is dedicated to a historical figure or moment: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Peninsular War, the Constitution of 1812, Ferdinand VII, South American independence, the reign of Isabel II, the Carlist Wars, the Barcelona-Mataró railway, Amadeo I, the First Republic, Alfonso XII and his son Alfonso XIII. The stamp features an illustration with figures from past eras, some from the Correspondencia Epistolar Escolar series, in a sinking ship.
20th Century. Here, the vignettes remember the Generation of 28, the loss of the colonies, Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Tragic Week in Barcelona, the Battle of Annual disaster, the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera, the Generation of 27, the Second Republic, the Asturias Uprising, the Civil War, the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and the reign of Juan Carlos I. The stamp shows a drawing of King Juan Carlos I with an olive branch, throwing a shadow of a dove of peace.
José Gallego and Julio Rey were born in Madrid in 1955. They met in 1980 working at Diario 16, where their first co-signed work appeared a year later. Between 1983 and 1989 they published a daily strip on current events in the newspaper.
Since then they have become essential figures in Spain's culture of political cartoons, producing intelligent satire that brings a smile to the faces of their followers while often depicting the harshest reality.
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