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Hyperfixation Alert: Guadalupe Victoria

I don't know where else to share my (digital) collection of Guadalupe Victoria pictures, so here you have it, Tumblr!

You see, something I'm kinda jealous of when it comes to American history (and other countries), is how often their historic characters are represented in art. It's more difficult to have this in Mexico... I'm talking about the figures who fought in the War of Independence... and it's hard because many of them were killed before getting their face depicted on a portrait.

The paintings we have of many of our "heroes" from the war of independence were created decades after they were killed, so that's not really what they looked like.

This is why I've been obsessed with depictions of Guadalupe Victoria, Mexico's first president. Enjoy!

I've divided this collection in "generations", the first generations being the ones the other depictions of Victoria stem from. Before we countinue, many of these portraits are not dated, so this organization system I've created might not be arranged in chronological order they were created.

Anyways, these are from the First generation:

The one that we'll see more of, is the one on the left, probably because of how handsome he looks. In all three depictions we see Victoria in his military uniform, which he probably never used in battle, since he was not a professional soldier (like most in the insurgent army).

It is a nice uniform, though, the influence of the Spanish uniforms from the viceroyalty is clear.

Second generation:

On the left we see Victoria in civilian clothing but wearing the presidential band. On the right we see a miniature portrait.Both of them are very pretty images, but we can see they are derivative of the ones from the first generation.

In order to simplify depictions of Victoria, his uniform will in later representations lose many adornments, which I think makes it look a bit more like the uniforms of the Mexican army in the mid 19th century... or like a low ranking soldier from Victoria's time. Also his arms are no longer crossed on his chest, which give Guadalupe a more rigid (and boring) pose:

Generation 3: Cartoons... He looks like a funko pop!

Generation 4: Victoria in different logos (all of them schools)

One of these things is not like another... Yes! The image in the middle is not Guadalupe Victoria... It's Agustín de Iturbide!

SEE?! Someone didn't learn their history...

Generation 5: Cute Victoria

Drawings made for schools, ephemeris or lame political propaganda.

Generation 6: Misc... idk what to do with these...

This one above is an image from a "monografía", a piece of paper with images and information on the back. Its use was very popular during elementary schools in Mexico back in my dys, idk if they're still used.

Victoria becomes president. Finally, something original! I'm not sure if it's from a monografía, but it wouldn't surprise me if it was.

¡Va mi espada en prena, voy por ella! The image below depicts Victoria's most famous heroic act during the war of independence:

To inspire his soldiers the young officer threw his sword towards the battlefield, where his troops refused to go despite being essential to capture the place they were attacking. Having done this, he cried "My sword is at stake, I'll go and fetch it!" and threw himself on the battlefield, which inspired his soldiers to follow him. It was after this battle that he stopped being José Miguel Ramón Adaucto Fernández y Félix and changed his name to Guadalupe Victoria. "Guadalupe" for his devotion to the Virgin Mary of Guadalupe and "Victoria" because victory was what the insurgency wanted to achieve.

I love that low resolution image with my whole heart, but it must be said, that one of its (possible) innacuracies in depicting this event might, once again, be his uniform. As previously stated, like many of the officers in the insurgent army, Victoria (then Félix) was not a trained soldier... In fact, he'd studied law before joining Father Morelos's army! So he wouldn't have an officer's uniform, or if he indeed wore one during the war, he probably stole it from a dead or defeated Spanish royalist officer. Regardless, it's still a cool piece of art!

COINS!

Look, they're our friends from the first generation!

Honorable mentions:

A bronze statue in Perote, Veracruz—the state where he spent his last years and died.

His presidential band in the Museum of Presidents in Saltillo.

happy mexican birth guys..

from left to right: guadalupe victoria, jose maria morelos, miguel hidalgo, agustin de iturbide, vicente guerrero, ignacio allende

CRIES. SCREAMS. ASCENDS. THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL!?!??! THIS IS SO GOOD AAAAH

ALSO your statement is 10000000% correct!!! i would kiss all of them regardless of their war crimes mwah

Supongo que estos ex presidentes fueron raros.

Ya sean traidores o héroes, lo que no negamos es que fueron personas a fin de cuentas.

I STARTED HAVING AN ASTHMA ATTACK AS SOON AS I SAW THIS

HELLO!??!?!?!? omga THE MEXICANS ARE REALL!!!

felix día de la independencia de méxico!! :D

happy mexican independence day!! :D

here’s some cool doodles of some very cool historical figures who kicked ass one way or another 🔥

wow, no santa anna for once

he loves guns, trucks, and God (James)

drawing mary to make myself feel better idkjhfgkdl

Y'all. Let’s have a moment of appreciation for Rafael Jorge Negrete portraying Guadalupe Victoria. 😍😍😍

…and a moment of appreciation for Guadalupe Victoria having been his own amazing self.

(on this cool program that I think is from Univision but I’m not sure.)

Diego Luna in Gritos de Muerte y Libertad

You’re married to your phone background/lockscreen how fucked are you

show it to king charles idk

behold the fruits of my labor: or, if TFC had an anime opening that was mostly just Shrewsbury.

((unmute if you will!))

little snippet of something.

𝒜𝓃ℴ𝓉𝒽ℯ𝓇 𝒯ℴ𝓃̃𝒾𝓉ℴ (𝒽ℯ 𝓁ℴℴ𝓀𝓈 𝓈ℴ 𝒸𝓊𝓉ℯ)💖💖

•𝒫𝓁ℯ𝒶𝓈ℯ 𝓈ℴ𝓂ℯℴ𝓃ℯ 𝓉ℯ𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝓂ℯ 𝓉ℴ 𝒹𝓇𝒶𝓌 𝒷ℴ𝒹𝒾ℯ𝓈😭

•ℰ𝓁 𝓅ℴ𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓉ℴ 𝓉ℴ𝒹ℴ 𝒷ℴ𝓃𝒾𝓉ℴ🐥

boy Mary AU w&m. well now its William and CHARLES but there can only be so many charleses at once so I shall refrain from calling her that. I think if she had to rule as king Mary would kind of take after William and be a bit more reclusive and serious, though she can still function at social events better than him. Quite a change from the previous Charles.

Since this is mostly crack I did not really think it through how she will come to rule, but it would be neat if they still had the glorious revolution just with Mary on her own, and some help from William. this does not make sense at all.

plus now there are Three of them. Monmouth and William can compete to be Mary's favorite cousin while teaching her about all the Normal Man Hobbies she is supposed to have now that she's a boy. James can't believe that after all this effort to keep his precious daughter/son away from stinky gross William, they have become besties.

SPARKLE BRUSH SUPREMACY

redraw of that AI miku art on twitter, which sadly looked stunning so everyone who saw it picked up the pencil to do it even better than the original. i just, ironically, chose to draw an AI myself rather than miku :3

not crediting the original 'creator' bc fuck that shit. hans william bentinck you will always be famous

boy Mary AU shrewsmary... two boys..named Charles... after the same Charles... and they hold hands. isn't that crazzzzyyy.

Vicente Guerrero in my art style :v

C. María de Bustamante contra Guerrero

Carlos María de Bustamante insulto bastante a Guerrero cuando se cambiaron de bando político.

Bustamante se refería a el como "espantojo de chilar" "porqueriz@" "efigie prieta" "más gordo que un cuin@" incluso insulto a la familia de este.

Bastante despreciable

Para más contenido estoy en tiktok como: coyote1562

Gracias:3

*turns your stuarts into delectable gingerbread people*

(Anne and Mary are Lime and Lemon Meringue Pie flavored respectively) This doesn't make sense AT ALL and I spent a stupidly long time on this and have yet to finish William and the others but why not. I drew them in the Cookie Run art style, sort of. Sorry that Mary is piss yellow now.

No se como terminé dibujando esto ajahaj, pero bueno espero y les guste, es un pequeño dato sobre las estaturas de estos ex-presidentes. La gente de ese tiempo mayormente no era muy alta que digamos.

Sigame en tiktok: @coyote1562

Gracias:3

YOU'RE FAMOUS BESTIE

fanart of jesus holding a hippo was not on my 2024 bingo card