Artworks · José Guadalupe Posada

The Clerical Calavera (La Calavera clerical)

1902 · Double-sided broadside with relief print and letterpress

composition: 13 3/4 x 10 1/16" (34.9 x 25.6 cm); sheet: 15 7/8 x 11 13/16" (40.4 x 30 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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

A dance with men in dresses paired with men in suits from a broadside entitled 'Los 41 maricones encontrados en un baile de la Calle de la Paz el 20 de Noviembre de 1901'

1901 · Etching on zinc

Sheet: 3 1/16 × 4 1/4 in. (7.8 × 10.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet relating to the Virgin of Guadalupe who is shown flanked by angels

1901 · Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 13/16 in. (20 × 30 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum 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

Broadsheet relating to freaks of nature, at right a creature that is half human and half pig with a single horn

1900 · Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (30 × 20 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet relating to a news story about the cause of a flood in Guanajuato, townspeople drowning

1900 · Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 3/4 × 7 15/16 in. (29.8 × 20.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet relating to life in prison, a man in his jail cell

1900 · Zincograph and letterpress on orange paper

Sheet: 7 13/16 × 11 13/16 in. (19.8 × 30 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The double murder in Puente de los Gallos

1900 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 1/16 in. (14.8 × 18 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Francisco Guerrero, the waistcoat maker and cut throat, murdering a woman

1900 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 5 5/16 × 7 5/16 in. (13.5 × 18.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Ballad of the Snail (Corrido del Caracol)

1899 · Zincograph

Sheet: 3 9/16 × 5 1/8 in. (9 × 13 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet with a ballad addressing poverty, woman sitting in a field of flowers with a duck that has a human's head

1899 · Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 13/16 in. × 8 in. (30 × 20.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Broadsheet relating to a story about a woman who has turned into stone, a group of people discovering her in the woods

1898 · Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 15/16 × 7 15/16 in. (30.3 × 20.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American mosquito that just appeared in Mexico

1898 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (8.2 × 13 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Broadsheet relating to the capture of Valentin Mancera who is shown playing the guitar and being cornered by men in uniforms carrying weapons

1897 · Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in. (30.3 × 19.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

The New Year 1896

1896 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (8 × 6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

Broadsheet with a verse about a woman who rejects a male suitor for another, vignettes of a woman talking to various men

1895 · Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (29.5 × 20 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet relating to the death of Pope León XIII, he is shown in his study flanked by angels

1895 · Type-metal engraving and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 13/16 in. × 8 in. (30 × 20.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet relating to the plight of an orphan, young boy standing at the graves of his parents in a cemetery

1895 · Zincograph and letterpress on beige paper

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (29.6 × 20 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet with a story about a miracle in San Cristobal de las Casas, in upper section a crowd of people watch a man fall from a hot air balloon, in the upper right an image an apparition of Christ

1895 · Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 8 1/16 in. (29.5 × 20.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The cross decorated with instruments of the passion of Christ, two weeping angels below

1895 · Zincograph (photomechanical reproduction?)

Sheet: 12 5/8 in. × 9 in. (32 × 22.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet about a thief named Malvado Ignacio Parra, who is shown on horseback holding a sword

1895 · Zincograph and letterpress on red paper

Sheet: 11 5/8 × 7 7/8 in. (29.5 × 20 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Figures kneeling before the Virgin

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 1 15/16 × 4 5/16 in. (5 × 11 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

An old man having a shower accompanied by two other figures

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 2 3/4 × 2 3/16 in. (7 × 5.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Game of the Goose, with the rules printed in the center

1895 · Zincograph and letterpress on orange paper

Sheet: 11 13/16 × 15 11/16 in. (30 × 39.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman discovering a man who has committed suicide by hanging himself from a balcony

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 4 3/4 × 3 15/16 in. (12 × 10 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A broadsheet with a popular song 'La China' on the recto, on the verso the dance of 'Cuba Libre'

1895 · Zincograph and letterpress on pink paper

Sheet: 7 7/8 × 11 13/16 in. (20 × 30 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The infamous son who poisoned his parents

1895 · Zincograph

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 6 1/8 in. (8 × 15.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A man playing a guitar serenading a woman, figures surround

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 1 15/16 × 6 1/8 in. (5 × 15.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A woman who gave birth to three children and four animals

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 9/16 × 5 1/2 in. (9 × 14 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Men fighting near a horse and carriage

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 6 in. × 7 5/16 in. (15.2 × 18.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The corn vendor who does not ask for money

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 3/4 × 5 5/8 in. (9.5 × 14.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Musicians standing in an arcade having a drink

1895 · Type-metal engraving

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 4 1/2 in. (8 × 11.5 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Skeletons (calaveras) riding bicycles

1895 · Type-metal engraving

sheet: 6 1/16 x 10 9/16 in. (15.4 x 26.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pagina 9: La Soldadera Maderista from 36 Grabados (36 Engravings)

1895 · Relief etching with leterpress from a selection of twelve relief engravings with leterpress and three relief etchings with leterpress, on twelve sheets

various composition dimensions; sheet (each): 13 3/4 x 9 3/8" (34.9 x 23.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art