Artworks · José Guadalupe Posada

Horrible Murder!

1905 · Photo-relief etching on tan wove paper

Comp: 30 × 19.7 cm (11 13/16 × 7 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Horrible Murder! Túxpan

1905 · Relief engraving on wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Gran Alarma Escandalosa

1904 · metalcut and letterpress on pink newsprint

sheet: 29 x 19.5 cm (11 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Game of the Goose

1904 · Relief engraving on zinc on paper

29.3 × 39.4 cm (11 9/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Arise from Your Graves, Calaveras...

1904 · Photo relief etching on orange wove paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Por Finjir Espantos (How to Scare Ghosts) from Teatro Infantil: colección de comedias para representarse por niños o titeres (Children's Theater: A Collection of Comedies to be Performed by Children or Puppets)

1904 · One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress

sheet (approx.): 6 × 4" (15.2 × 10.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

El Placer de la Niñez Colección de Monòlogos en la Cocina: Pasión Eterna (The Pleasure of Childhood Kitchen Monologues: Eternal Passion) from Teatro Infantil: colección de comedias para representarse por niños o titeres (Children's Theater: A Collection of Comedies to be Performed by Children or Puppets)

1904 · One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress

sheet (approx.): 6 × 4" (15.2 × 10.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

El Casamiento Frustrado - Segunda Parte (The Frustrated Marriage - Part Two) from Teatro Infantil: colección de comedias para representarse por niños o titeres (Children's Theater: A Collection of Comedies to be Performed by Children or Puppets)

1904 · One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress

sheet (approx.): 6 × 4" (15.2 × 10.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

El Casamiento Frustrado - Primera Parte (The Frustrated Marriage - Part One) from Teatro Infantil: colección de comedias para representarse por niños o titeres (Children's Theater: A Collection of Comedies to be Performed by Children or Puppets)

1904 · One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress

sheet (approx.): 6 × 4" (15.2 × 10.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Interesting News

1903 · Double-sided relief engraving on paper

29.9 × 20.2 cm (11 13/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Rumba

1903 · Relief etching in red and black on paper

15.8 × 19.7 cm (6 1/4 × 7 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La milagrosa imagen del Señor del Rescate (The Miraculous Image of Our Savior)

1903 · Relief impression from stereotyped plate or photo relief etching on tan wove paper

Image: 35.9 × 26 cm (14 3/16 × 10 1/4 in.); Sheet: 39.7 × 30.3 cm (15 11/16 × 11 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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

1903 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper

40.3 × 30 cm (15 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

True Portrait of Our Lord of the Hospital

1903 · Double-sided relief engraving on paper

40.6 × 30 cm (16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Most Holy Virgin of Solitude

1903 · Double-sided relief engraving on zinc on paper

29.9 × 20.1 cm (11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Crime Never Before Seen! (Tomás Sanchez)

1902 · Relief engraving on wove paper

30.1 × 20 cm (11 7/8 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A Neighborhood Dispute

1902 · Double-sided relief engraving on zinc on paper

29.4 × 19.9 cm (11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Great Ascension

1902 · Double-sided relief etching on zinc and typemetal on paper

29.9 × 20.2 cm (11 13/16 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Continuation, Sirs, of the Forecasts

1902 · Double-sided relief engraving on paper

29.9 × 20 cm (11 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Terrible Crime Never Before Seen! Woman worse than the wild beasts!! A little girl with clothing sewn to her body

1902 · Photo relief etching on tan wove paper

29.9 × 20.5 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Grand Electric Calavera as a Present to You, A Calavera of Pure Electricity

1902 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper

40.7 × 30.1 cm (16 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Calavera of the Peoples' Editor Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

1902 · Relief engraving on wove paper

40.2 × 30.2 cm (15 7/8 × 11 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

La Mujer de Cien Maridos - Como Alfileres Prendidos

1901 · metalcut on red newsprint

sheet: 29 x 19.5 cm (11 7/16 x 7 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

From Torreón to Lerdo

1900 · Relief etching on zinc on paper

18.6 × 13.7 cm (7 3/8 × 5 7/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Comet

1899 · Double-sided relief engraving on zinc on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

The Comet

1899 · Double-sided relief engraving on zinc on paper

29.6 × 40.4 cm (11 11/16 × 15 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Great Halley's Comet

1899 · Double sided relief engraving on zinc on paper

29.9 × 19.9 cm (11 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Bullfight Dice-Game

1898 · Photo relief etching on wove paper

40.4 × 30 cm (15 15/16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Very Extravagant Verses

1898 · Double-sided relief engraving on typemetal on paper

Art Institute of Chicago

Incredible Event: Woman Turns to Stone

1898 · Relief engraving on zinc on paper

30.1 × 20.2 cm (11 7/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Oaxacan Songs

1898 · Relief engraving on zinc on paper

15.2 × 20.4 cm (6 × 8 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Interior of the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe

1898 · Photo-relief etching with engraving on tan wove paper

40.2 × 30 cm (15 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Mexican Party

1897 · Relief print on paper

29.4 × 19.9 cm (11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Don Pepito Contemplates those present, calaveras of friends and family

1897 · Relief engraving on tan wove paper

40.2 × 30 cm (15 7/8 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Woman with 100 Husbands

1896 · Relief engraving on zinc on paper

30.1 × 20.2 cm (11 7/8 × 8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

From the Track of This Famous Hippodrome, Not a Single Journalist Will Be Missing. Inexorable Death Has No Respect, Not Even for Those You See Here Riding Bicycles.

1895 · Relief engraving or photo-relief etching (engraving style) in black on tan wove paper

60.1 × 40.5 cm (23 11/16 × 16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Strange and Unheard of Event! A Pig with the Face of a Man, Eyes of a Fish, and a Horn on His Forehead!

1895 · Photo relief etching on wove paper

29.9 × 20.1 cm (11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Long Live the Glorious 16th of September! Honor and Glory to the Priest from Dolores Don Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Initiator of our Independence. Long Live the Mexican Army!

1894 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper

60.2 × 40 cm (23 3/4 × 15 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Great Comet and Fiery Blaze

1894 · Relief engraving (left) and photo-relief etching, with engraving on green wove paper

20.2 × 30.1 cm (8 × 11 7/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Pachuquenian Calavera

1894 · Photo relief etching with relief etching (smaller images) on red wove paper

40.4 × 29.8 cm (15 15/16 × 11 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Dance Orchestra (La Tipica) from 25 Prints of José Guadalupe Posada

1894 · Engraving from a portfolio of seventeen engravings and eight etchings

composition: 5 1/16 x 3 3/8" (12.9 x 8.6 cm); sheet: 7 1/4 x 5 5/16" (18.4 x 13.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Street Gazette: Grand Inauguration of the New Racetrack Situated on Peñón Hill in Mexico City

1893 · Relief engraving or photo relief etching with stenciled color on wove paper

40.5 × 30 cm (16 × 11 13/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ballad of The Death of General Manuel González (Corrido: La muerte del general Manuel González)

1893 · Relief engraving

composition: 4 7/16 x 7 3/4" (11.3 x 19.7 cm); sheet: 4 5/8 x 7 7/8" (11.7 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Dragon of Corpus Christi

1892 · Photo relief etching on wove paper

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

Art Institute of Chicago

The Man Hanged on the Street of the Window Grilles of Balvanera, Horrible Suicide, Monday, January 8, 1892 (El ahorcado en la Calle de las Rejas de Balvanera, horrible suicidio el Lunes 8 Enero 1892)

1892 · Relief engraving

composition: 4 5/8 x 3 7/8" (11.7 x 9.8 cm); sheet: 4 3/4 x 4 1/16" (12.1 x 10.3 cm); mount: 11 5/8 x 9 1/4" (29.6 x 23.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Don Chepito

1891 · relief etching on pink paper

sheet: 25.4 × 22.86 cm (10 × 9 in.)

National Gallery of Art

La Aurora del Nuevo Dia en los Campos de Belen (The Dawn of a New Day in the Fields of Bethlehem) from Teatro Infantil: colección de comedias para representarse por niños o titeres (Children's Theater: A Collection of Comedies to be Performed by Children or Puppets)

1891 · One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress

sheet (approx.): 6 × 4" (15.2 × 10.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Adventures of Don Chepito (Las aventuras de Don Chepito)

1891 · Relief engraving

plate: 3 9/16 x 4 7/16" (9 x 11.2cm); sheet (slightly variable): 6 15/16 x 9 3/16" (17.6 x 23.4cm)

Museum of Modern Art