José Guadalupe Posada
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FG0051 El jurado de la Bejarano. El crimen de la Calle de los Vizcainas. El martirio de la Niña Crescencia Pineda. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose, full sheet, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 13.3 x 11.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0051] |
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FG0052 Lamentable y espantoso ejemplo ocurrido en el pueblo de la barca, estado de Jalisco el día 4 de Diciembre del año próximo pasado. Juan Ortiz asesino de su mujer y de su anciano padre. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.0 x 13.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0052] |
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FG0053 Lamentos de un casado que ya se da a los infiernos. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, blue paper. Two zinc etchings (left) 7.0 x 8.3 cm. and (right) 10.6 x 3.4 cm. Unsigned. The two separate etchings form one image. [Print 999-019-0053] |
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FG0054 Lamentos muy lastimeros que exhalan en hondos gritos los señores cantineros y los pobres borrachitos. 1803 [sic](i.e., 1903). Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Signed in print: Posada. 9.4 x 12.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0054] |
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FG0055 Legitimos versos de Lino Zamora traidos del Real de Zacatecas. 1903. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, green paper. Two type-metal engravings, including verso. Recto: Unsigned. 11.3 x 16.2 cm. Verso: (not shown) mourners leaving cemetery with apparition beside grave. Unsigned. 7.6 x 12.8 cm. [Print 999-019-0055] |
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FG0056 Martirio de una niña. (Gaceta Callejera. No. 13) October 3, 1893. Pictorial broadside with prose, full sheet, tan paper. Type-metal engraving: Unsigned. 16.7 x 14.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0056] |
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FG0057 Mi grandota, nuevas y divertidas decimas para reír y pasar el rato. 1911. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, pink paper. At left: zinc etching. Unsigned. 9.9 x 4.4 cm. At right: type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.5 x 5.1 cm. [Print 999-019-0057] |
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FG0058 La milagrosa imagen del Señor del Rescate.1903. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Signed in print: Posada. 29.2 x 20.2 cm. Tyler 36: "The pious devotional image, normally found as a folk painting (retablo), is here successfully transferred by Posada to the medium of print. [Print 999-019-0058] |
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FG0059A Misteriosos fantasmas en las bovedas de Loreto. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose, half sheet, printed recto and verso, yellow paper. Two type-metal engravings, printed side by side to form a single image. At left: Unsigned, 6.7 x 7.5 cm. At right: Unsigned, 7.7 x 4.5 cm. [Print 999-019-0059A] |
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FG0059B Cancion de los fantasmas de Loreto. Undated. Verse text. Unsigned. 8.9 x 8.1 cm. Male figure at right is Posada's comic invention Don Chepito. [Print 999-019-0059B] |
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FG0060 El mosquito americano. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, bright orange paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.9 x 12.7 cm. Tyler 103: "Perhaps the tourists who were just beginning to be a common sight throughout the republic were the dreaded mosquito. . . Another possibility is that mosquito referred to the many Americans President Díaz was bringing in to handle the railroads, the mines, and other technical aspects of Mexico's development. A third possibility is that the term referred to the already ubiquitous American dollar." [Print 999-019-0060] |