Artworks · José Guadalupe Posada

A man being thrown to the sharks, from a broadside entitled 'Triste Fin de Gerardo Nevraumont'

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 11/16 in. (14 × 22 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man with a small foot emerging from his side

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 4 13/16 × 3 15/16 in. (12.3 × 10 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A marching band standing in a street, illustration from 'La gorra del cuartel'

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 4 3/16 × 6 1/2 in. (10.7 × 16.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Fight between mothers-in-law from a broadside entitled 'Pleito de suegras'

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 3/4 × 5 3/8 in. (9.5 × 13.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A priest conducting mass from a balcony, an image of the Virgin of Guadalupe set in palm tree

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 13/16 in. (18.2 × 12.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A profile of a man with a beard and a hat

1875 · Woodcut

Sheet: 1 in. × 7/8 in. (2.5 × 2.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skeleton serving alcohol, from a broadside enitled 'Medicinas de Patente de mas Fama'

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 1 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (3.8 × 3.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A profile of a man looking to the right with a dark mustache

1875 · Woodcut

Sheet: 4 5/16 × 4 15/16 in. (11 × 12.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A group of people looking at Mexico City

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 1 3/4 × 6 1/2 in. (4.5 × 16.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man who has just stabbed himself falls backwards accompanied by three people

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 7/8 in. (11.7 × 17.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A group of holy men holding candles around a bier with a prelate

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 6 3/4 × 4 7/16 in. (17.2 × 11.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Discovery of two bodies

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 5 1/8 in. (8 × 13 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A rooster

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 5 11/16 × 5 5/16 in. (14.5 × 13.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Siamese Twins

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 3 3/4 × 5 11/16 in. (9.5 × 14.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A middle-class couple (Maria la chiquita) outside a house with a waiting coach

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 9/16 × 4 5/8 in. (9 × 11.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Woman praying to the Virgin of Guadalupe as her husband rages

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 11/16 × 5 9/16 in. (9.3 × 14.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Chaos during an earthquake

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 4 5/8 × 6 5/8 in. (11.8 × 16.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man executed by garroting in the town square at Mixalco

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 3 7/16 × 5 11/16 in. (8.8 × 14.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Collision between a trolley and a hearse

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 3 3/4 × 6 3/16 in. (9.5 × 15.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a bearded man wearing a checkered cap

1875 · Woodcut

Sheet: 3 5/8 × 3 1/16 in. (9.2 × 7.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman with her ams open surrounded by figures in elegant dress

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/4 × 5 3/8 in. (8.2 × 13.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A group of mother-in-laws flanked by two men

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 7/8 × 5 3/16 in. (9.8 × 13.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A group of men with weapons issuing a cry for independence

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 8 1/4 × 5 11/16 in. (21 × 14.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A profile of a man with a dark mustache and big nose

1875 · Woodcut

Sheet: 1 3/16 × 1 1/8 in. (3 × 2.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A drover and a mule standing on a road with a church in the background

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 7/16 × 5 11/16 in. (8.7 × 14.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A son strangling his mother while people try to pull him off

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 15/16 × 5 5/16 in. (10 × 13.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Firefighters putting out a fire in a house, firetruck in foreground

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 7 5/16 × 6 3/16 in. (18.6 × 15.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Profile of a female skeleton with a fur vest, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 2 13/16 × 2 1/8 in. (7.2 × 5.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Skeleton standing with his arms raised

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 1 3/16 × 9/16 in. (3 × 1.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A male skeleton leading a female skeleton to the left, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 5/8 in. (8 × 6.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Skeleton wearing a hat and carrying a towel

1875 · Etching on zinc

Sheet: 1 1/4 × 7/8 in. (3.2 × 2.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skeleton in a torero costume turning away from a kneeling skeleton in a shawl and dress, from the broadside entitled, 'El Gran Panteon Amoroso,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 5/16 × 2 9/16 in. (8.4 × 6.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skeleton wearing a hat, holding newspapers and running

1875 · Zincograph

Sheet: 7/8 × 7/8 in. (2.3 × 2.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A profile of a skeleton with a tophat, a coat, and glasses, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Type-metal engraving (reproduction?)

Sheet: 2 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (7.2 × 6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skeleton with her back turned wearing a coat and hat, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Type-metal engraving (reproduction?)

Sheet: 2 13/16 × 2 3/8 in. (7.2 × 6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two elegantly dressed skeletons walking, from a broadside entitled, 'El Gran Panteon Amoroso,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Etching on zinc

Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 5/8 in. (8.3 × 6.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A skeleton in farming clothes speaking to a skeleton in a dress, from a broaside entitled 'La Calavera de Cupido', published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 5/8 in. (8.3 × 6.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two elegantly dressed skeletons walking, from a broadside entitled, 'El Gran Panteon Amoroso,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo.

1875 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/4 × 2 5/8 in. (8.3 × 6.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gran fandango y francachela de todas las calaveras (Grand Dance and Wild Party of All the Calaveras)

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper

Image: 36.3 × 25.9 cm (14 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Plate: 36.5 × 26 cm (14 3/8 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 40.4 × 30.2 cm (15 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on wove paper

60 × 40.4 cm (23 5/8 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Here is the Calavera Folks, of All Good Defenders

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on wove paper

40.3 × 29.9 cm (15 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Horrible Crime Committed by Juan Riesca

1872 · Photo relief etching on on tan wove paper

30.1 × 20.2 cm (11 7/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The American Mosquito

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on wove paper

29.8 × 20 cm (11 3/4 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Gift of Calaveras, Given to the Chickpea Sellers. As Proof of True Love, Quarrels of a Water Seller

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on wove paper

40 × 30 cm (15 3/4 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Calavera of the Pilgrims that Have Died Walking the Streets and Are Now at Rest

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on red paper

40.2 × 29.9 cm (15 13/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Details of the Latest Execution

1872 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on wove paper

41.1 × 29.3 cm (16 3/16 × 11 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Calaveras of the Cucaracha: A Party in the Afterlife

1872 · Photo-relief etching on wove paper

40.4 × 30.2 cm (15 15/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

1872 · Photo-relief etching with engraving on tan wove paper

Image: 36 × 27.3 cm (14 3/16 × 10 3/4 in.); Sheet: 40.2 × 30.8 cm (15 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago