José Guadalupe Posada
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FG0031 Diálogo divertido entre mujer y marido. c.
1920. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto
and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Attributed to
Manuel Manilla. 11.3 x 9.6 cm. Unsigned. 9.0 x 2.2 cm. |
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FG0032 Don Pepito contempla a las presentes calaveras de amigos y parientes. Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, red paper. Type-metal engraving. Signed in print: Posada. 19.1 x 10.1 cm. (The odd looking character called Don Pepito here, appears in other Posada prints as Don Chepito.) [Print 999-019-0032] |
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FG0033 Ejemplar y ciertisimo suceso en la republica mexicana.
Las verdaderas causas de temblor del dia 2 de noviembre de
1894. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse,
full sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal
engraving. Unsigned. 11.7 x 20.9 cm. Tyler 54: "Posada's
turbulent composition was reused to depict several later quakes.
Verso (not shown) is another earthquake scene, this of fleeing
and injured persons beside fallen walls. Unsigned. 12.0 x
13.4 cm. |
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FG0034 ¡Espantoso crímen nunca visto! Mujer peor que las fieras!! Una niña con la ropa cosida al cuerpo. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.7 x 13.6 cm. See restrike FG0170. [Print 999-019-0034] |
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FG0035 ¡Extraño nunca visto acontecimiento! Un cerdo con cara de hombre. . . 1900. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 15.3 x 9.3 cm. Tyler 82 (variation): "This is one of the many prints that Vanegas Arroyo published calling attention to freaks of nature. . . [like] another of Posada's all-time favorites, the woman who gave birth to three children and four alligators." [Print 999-019-0035] |
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FG0036 Florencio Reyes Morales y Bernardo Mora sentenciados en el primer Salón de Jurados del Palacio Penal, el seis de Junio de 1907, á sufrir la pena de muerte por el asesinato del General Manuel Lisandro Barillas, Ex-Presidente de Guatemala. 1907. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.7 x 15.0 cm. [Print 999-019-0036] |
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FG0037 La fuga de Jesús Bruno Martínez de Belen.
Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose, full sheet, tan paper.
Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 17.4 x 19.8 cm. |
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FG0038 Funebres recuerdos de Ponciano, el distinguido torero mexicano, ya murio Ponciano Diaz El Magnifico Torero. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 13.5 x 9.7 cm. [Print 999-019-0038] |
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FG0039 El fusilamiento de Dionisio Silverio en Metepec, el día 8 de Septiembre de 1903. 1903. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 11.4 x 16.1 cm. [Print 999-019-0039] |
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FG0040 Eal Fusilamiento de Florencio Morales y Bernardo Mora. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.3 x 14.1 cm. Tyler 140: "The two Guatemalans Florencio Morales and Bernardo Mora were executed for the stabbing death of the exiled former president of their country, Gen. Manuel Lisandro Barillas, in Mexico City [Print 999-019-0040] |