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José Guadalupe Posada

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Pink printed broadside with a woodcut of dressed animals and a guitar player above two columns of Spanish verse.

Very Extravagant Verses

1903

Green printed broadsheet with two song columns, an engraved woman with a book, and a bust portrait of Porfirio Diaz.

March Dedicated to General C. Porfirio Diaz

n.d.

Green broadside showing a comet over a city skyline while a crowd looks up in alarm, with printed text below.

Great Comet and Fiery Blaze

1899

Broadside with woodcut scene of figures in period dress and a man sprawled on the ground, with Spanish verse below.

The Disappointment Suffered by Don Chepito

n.d.

Blue-ink printed Juego del Coyote game board with a coyote head at center, hens on the path, and farmyard vignettes in the co

Game of the Coyote

n.d.

Posada-style broadside of skeletons playing instruments and holding tools in flames, with verses naming artisans below.

The Artistic Purgatory, Wherein Sprawl the Calaveras of Artists and Artisans

n.d.

Printed broadside with an oval portrait of an elderly man in a high collar, honoring Miguel Hidalgo, framed by decorative bor

Long Live the Glorious 16th of September! Honor and Glory to the Priest from Dolores Don Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, I…

1899

Mexican broadside with a large central skull and smaller skulls and bones, surrounded by columns of printed Spanish text.

Pantheon of Miscellany

1919

Broadside print of a skeleton horseman with a lance charging over tumbling skeletons, with verse text in Spanish.

This is Don Quixote's, the First, the Matchless, the Giant Calavera

n.d.

Engraved broadside with a large skull of stacked skeletal forms over crossed bones, title La Gran Calavera, and verse columns

The Great Calavera

n.d.

Woodcut print of skeletons riding bicycles, some in top hats and sombreros, with a winged skeleton at center on tan paper.

Skeletons (calaveras) riding bicycles

ca. 1891

Yellowed broadside of Spanish song lyrics with a woodcut illustration of a woman in a shawl and ornate borders.

El pagare de la charrita mexicana (The Promissory Note of La Charrita Mexicana)

n.d.

Broadside with a woodcut of three men in sombreros walking through trees, above columns of Spanish verse, 1910.

Los nuevos versos de Carlos Coronado (The New Verses by Carlos Coronado)

1910

Relief printing block of a skeleton in a sombrero with a mustache and sword, mounted on a wooden base.

Printing block for Calavera of the Masses, no. 2

1910

Woodcut broadside showing mounted police charging a crowd with sabers, with newspaper columns of text below.

Cover of the 'Gaceta Callejera' reporting on the continuation of anti-reelection riots

1892

Pink broadside by José Guadalupe Posada showing a woman and a human-faced hen before a town skyline, with Spanish verse below

Gran Alarma Escandalosa

1904

Printed broadside titled Serafina with song lyrics and a central woodcut of a standing woman in period dress.

Serafina

1914?

Red broadside with black line drawing of a woman surrounded by men in hats, with printed verse and decorative border.

La Mujer de Cien Maridos - Como Alfileres Prendidos

1901

Woodcut broadside portrait of bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona with Spanish text columns and a verse, tan paper, 1909.

La Libertad caucional del Famoso Diestro Rodolfo Gaona. (Famous bullfighter Rodolfo Gaona free on bail.)

1909