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Zé Povinho is the cartoon character of a Portuguese everyman created in 1875 by Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro. He became first a symbol of the Portuguese working-class people, and eventually into the unofficial personification of Portugal.^[1]

Gallery

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  First apparition of Zé Povinho in A Lanterna Mágica magazine, 12 June 1875
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  Zé Povinho in A Lanterna Mágica, 1875
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  Zé Povinho in the O António Maria magazine, 1880
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  Colour drawing of Zé Povinho, 1882
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  Zé Povinho and his creator caricatured in the Airport Station of the Lisbon Metro, 2012

References

• Estudos em Homenagem a Jorge Borges de Macedo, Lisbon, INIC, 1992

External links

Media related to Zé Povinho at Wikimedia Commons

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