Chorrojumo

A carte-de-visite portrait of Mariano Fernández Santiago (1824-1906), one of the best known figures of Grenada in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Known as 'Chorrojumo,' his name derived from a contraction in the local speech patterns of the words for ‘stream of smoke.'

The self-styled ‘Prince of the Gypsies’ made his living by escorting tourists around the Alhambra, telling tales of his glorious past, and through sales of his photographic portraits.

An inked inscription verso in a period hand reads 'Spanish gipsy taken outside the Alhambra.'

Photographed by Dubois of Grenada.