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José Guadalupe Posada

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Yellow broadside with a woodcut comet over a starry sky and a crowd of figures before a church skyline, with Spanish text.

The Great Halley's Comet

1899, published 1910

Woodcut broadside showing a petatero and a seated tortillera at a street corner altar, with Spanish verse below.

In Honor of the Lord of Wonders

n.d.

Broadside with woodcut of a woman stabbing a man while devils hover, above Spanish text under the title Horrible Murder.

Horrible Murder!

c. 1910

Blue broadside with a central skeleton in sombrero, printed verses on both sides, and ornamental skull-decorated borders.

Calavera cismatica (Schismatic Calavera)

n.d.

Red broadside with a pointing skeleton, a skull-filled tram, a heap of skulls at a cemetery wall, and columns of verse.

Calavera of the Masses

1915

Red broadside with a skeletal rider on horseback at center, flanked by verse columns and small skull vignettes.

Little Calavera of General Gómez

n.d.

Printed broadside of skeletal figures in uniforms and hats charging with rifles and flags, above columns of satirical verse.

The Rebel Calavera of the Federal Army, Merchants, and Artisans

September 1911

Posada broadside of skeletons feasting among tombs above columns of verse, with skulls in the corners.

The Mausoleum of All the Calaveras That Are Found in a Heap

1905

Broadside with woodcut of a penitentiary building, tram and street scene, skeletons, skulls and printed verses.

Here is the Calaveron of the Penitentiary. Don't break, old bones, for your day has just arrived

n.d.

Green broadside with a large skeleton, hourglass and bells, and columns of satirical verse titled La Calavera Clerical.

The Priestly Calavera

n.d.

Posada broadside of skeletal figures in a graveyard around an RIP coffin, with Spanish verse printed below.

Aquí están las calaveras de Don Folias y el Negrito (Here Are the Calaveras of Don Folias and El Negrito)

n.d.

Tan broadside of skeletal figures carrying a coffin in procession above columns of printed verse and decorative borders.

Calavera de la hora oficial (Calavera of the Official Time)

n.d.

Woodcut broadside showing a bullfighter with capes facing a bull, above columns of printed verses about Lino Zamora.

True Verses about Lino Zamora

1911

Green broadside with a central skeleton in a sombrero surrounded by skeletal crowds and skulls, with Spanish verses below.

Revolutionary Calavera

c. 1910

Broadside poster with woodcut of a train wreck in mountains, Spanish text and verse about the 1910 Palo Blanco derailment.

The Derailment in Palo Blanco

n.d.

Broadside with calavera verse, two skeleton figures in dress, and a skeletal funeral procession carrying a coffin below.

Calavera: Historica-Religiosa (Calavera: Historic-Religious)

n.d.

Broadside print with a central skeleton wearing a flowered hat, above rhyming Spanish verses in columns and a decorative bord

Calaveras of the Cucaracha: A Party in the Afterlife

n.d.

Relief print of skeletons in period clothing dancing beside a barrel, with rows of satirical verse below, by José Guadalupe P

Gift from Calaveras

1910

Orange broadside with a woodcut of sombrero-wearing men among trees above two columns of Spanish verse.

New Verses from Carlos Coronado

1910

Woodcut broadside of a horseman with raised sword on a rearing horse, above printed verses announcing the criminal Ignacio Pa

Already the Authority...

n.d.

Broadside with woodcut scenes of a guitarist and soldiers above columns of printed verse about Valentín Mancera.

Verses of Valentin Mancera

n.d.

Broadside of Cupid's Calavera showing rows of skeleton figures in period clothing, each with a printed verse below.

Cupid's Calavera

n.d.

Posada broadside of a bearded man in a top hat surrounded by reading skeletons and printed books, with verse text.

The Calavera of the Peoples' Editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

1902

Woodcut broadside of a skeleton in a sombrero and serape playing guitar, flanked by printed verse columns.

Calavera of the Masses, no. 2

c. 1910

Red relief print of dancing skeletons in hats and dresses above columns of Spanish verse, by José Guadalupe Posada.

Pachuquenian Calavera

1894

Black-and-white print of a crucified Christ between candlesticks and flower arrangements, with a caption naming the Lord of t

True Portrait of Our Lord of the Hospital

1903

Engraved print of a church interior with columns, arches, a central altar shrine, and worshippers gathered on the stairs.

Interior of the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe

1898

Woodcut broadside of a woman by a barred window with an owl, skull, chains, and a corpse on a bed, above Spanish text.

Guadalupe Bejarano in the Dungeons of Belén Prison

1891

Green broadside print of skeletons as market vendors and customers, with Spanish verse text below.

Calaveras in Abundance at a Fraction of the Price, as Never Before Seen in this whole capital

1903

Woodcut broadside showing a deathbed scene above a block of printed Spanish text announcing a death in 1895.

Sensitive Death

n.d.

Woodcut broadside showing a flood with floating bodies, uprooted trees, a pig and debris, above columns of Spanish text.

Alarming and Terrible Flood, Never Before Seen in Guanajuato!

1905

Posada broadside of an old man in spectacles holding a skull above a pile of skulls, with verse columns and a Grim Reaper fig

Don Pepito Contemplates those present, calaveras of friends and family

1902