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Revolutionary Calavera
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo-relief etching (drawing style) in black on green wove paper · 1905
Art Institute of Chicago

The Mausoleum of All the Calaveras That Are Found in a Heap
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo relief etching and relief engraving on wove paper · 1905
Art Institute of Chicago

Horrible Murder!
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo-relief etching on tan wove paper · 1905
Art Institute of Chicago

Arise from Your Graves, Calaveras...
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo relief etching on orange wove paper · 1904
Art Institute of Chicago

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)
José Guadalupe Posada
One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress · 1904
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)
José Guadalupe Posada
One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress · 1904
Museum of Modern Art

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)
José Guadalupe Posada
One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress · 1904
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)
José Guadalupe Posada
One from a series of twenty seven pamphlets with relief etching and letterpress · 1904
Museum of Modern Art

The Rumba
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief etching in red and black on paper · 1903
Art Institute of Chicago

La milagrosa imagen del Señor del Rescate (The Miraculous Image of Our Savior)
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief impression from stereotyped plate or photo relief etching on tan wove paper · 1903
Art Institute of Chicago

Calaveras in Abundance at a Fraction of the Price, as Never Before Seen in this whole capital
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper · 1903
Art Institute of Chicago

The Great Ascension
José Guadalupe Posada
Double-sided relief etching on zinc and typemetal on paper · 1902
Art Institute of Chicago

Terrible Crime Never Before Seen! Woman worse than the wild beasts!! A little girl with clothing sewn to her body
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo relief etching on tan wove paper · 1902
Art Institute of Chicago

Grand Electric Calavera as a Present to You, A Calavera of Pure Electricity
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper · 1902
Art Institute of Chicago

Electric Light Arrives
Manuel Manilla
Relief engraving or photo relief etching on green wove paper · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago

From Torreón to Lerdo
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief etching on zinc on paper · 1900
Art Institute of Chicago

Bullfight Dice-Game
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo relief etching on wove paper · 1898
Art Institute of Chicago

Interior of the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo-relief etching with engraving on tan wove paper · 1898
Art Institute of Chicago

La Feuille, no. 6
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
Journal with relief etching illustration · 1898
Museum of Modern Art

La Feuille, no. 14
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
Journal with relief etching illustration · 1898
Museum of Modern Art

La Feuille, no. 7
Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen
Journal with relief etching illustration · 1898
Museum of Modern 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.
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief engraving or photo-relief etching (engraving style) in black on tan wove paper · 1895
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!
José Guadalupe Posada
Photo relief etching on wove paper · 1895
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!
José Guadalupe Posada
Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper · 1894
Art Institute of Chicago