(b Mexico City, 1833; d Mexico City, 1908). Mexican illustrator and lithographer. He studied at the Escuela Militar de Ingenieros, Mexico City. When the school was reorganized following the American invasion of 1847, he was commissioned to execute portraits of the Child Heroes. During the French intervention he founded a number of political newspapers, including El espectro, El perico and Palo de ciego, for which he executed caricatures and lithographs. Persecution forced him into hiding, but he re-emerged in 1865 as interpreter and chief draughtsman to the Comisi?n Cient?fica del Imperio. Following the death in 1868 of Constantino Escalante, Hern?ndez became the caricaturist for the periodical La orquesta; he also produced lithographs for El artista (e.g. The Rattle; see Fern?ndez, fig. 227). He collaborated with Hesiquio Iriarte on, among other things, illustrations for El libro rojo (1870), a novel by Vicente Riva Palacio, director of La orquesta. At the time of his death Hern?ndez was producing caricatures for El hijo del ahuizote.
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