Bandits &amp Heroes

FG0021

El cancionero popular. Num. 2. Jesus Negrete, El Tigre de Santa Julia. 1909. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, salmon paper. Zinc etchings. Unsigned. 8.0 x 16.0 cm. Signed in print: Posada. 17.1 x 6.2 cm. Tyler 17: "One of the most famous of the bandits that infested rural Mexico during the early twentieth century. . .[Negrete] had a record of crimes that was virtually unending . . . [Print 999-019-0021]

FG0026

Corrido de la vida de Santanón. 1911. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.4 x 13.6 cm. Tyler 5: "Santana Rodríguez (Santanón) was one of the well-known 'Robin Hoods' who captured the fancy of the Mexican people during the Díaz era. His territory was the state of Veracruz [Print 999-019-0026]

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.
[Print 999-019-0037]

FG0049

Jesús Bruno Martinez en las bartolinas de Belen. Ultimas noticias de S. Juan de Ulua, las alhajas de Treffiel. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, full sheet, tan paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 12.8 x 17.7 cm. [Print 999-019-0049]

FG0062

Muerte de Aurelio Caballero por el vómito, en Veracruz. Undated. Pictorial broadside with prose and verse, full sheet, green paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 12.8 x 18 cm. Tyler 118. Aurelio Caballero was one of the persons convicted in the La Profesa theft in February of 1891. He died in prison at San Juán de Ulúa of yellow fever. [Print 999-019-0062]

FG0099

Versos de Valentin Mancera traidos del estado de Guanajuato. . . Murió Valentin Mancera . . . Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned 8.2 x 13.6 cm. Tyler 11: "An outlaw from the state of Guanajuato [Mancera] became one of the most famous hero-types of Mexico. . [Print 999-019-0099]

FG0105

Ya la autoridad echó garra al malvado Ignacio Parra. 1911. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Signed in print: Posada. 12.4 x 14.1 cm. On verso are two additional illustrations (bird and cherub. not shown.)Tyler 7: "Parra was one of Heracleo Bernal's band of outlaws, well known during the Díaz era . . . The corridistas who penned these verses . . . recognized the hero status Parra and the others had among the pelados (poor Indians and peones)." [Print 999-019-0105]

FG0184

"Corrido: De Carlos Coronado." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.5 x 14.5 cm. [Print 999-019-0184]

FG0190

"Corrido: 'Fusilamiento del Tigre de Santa Julia.'" Zinc etching. 8.2 x 14.2 cm. For information on Negrete see broadside FG0021. Right side printed from same plate as FG0260. [Print 999-019-0190]

FG0198

"Corrido 'Macario Romero.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 9.6 x 13.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0198]

FG0204

"Corrido: 'Valentin Mancera.'" Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.8 x 12.7 cm. Printed from same plate as broadside FG0099. [Print 999-019-0204]

FG0207

"Crimen del Tigre de Santa Julia, 1903. Corrido 'El tigre de Santa Julia.'" Zinc etching. Signed. 8.4 x 14.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0207]

FG0251

"La fuga de Bruno Martínez (fragmento)" Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 17.7 x 17.2 cm. Right half of pictorial broadside FG0037. [Print 999-019-0251]

FG0260

[Fusilamiento del Tigre de Santa Julia]. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.0 x 8.5 cm. See also: 999-019-0190.
[Print 999-019-0260]

FG0270

"Jesus Bruno Martínez en las bartolinos de Belen." Type-metal engraving. Printed in ivory and black inks. Unsigned. 13.1 x 17.6 cm. [Print 999-019-0270]

FG0303

"Nuevos y divertidos versos de un valiante del bajío." Zinc etching. Signed. 21.5 x 16.2 cm. Tyler 3: "The strong regional traditions in Mexico are represented in the valiente corridos that appeared throughout the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Originating in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish literary forms, these corridos unblushingly boasted of the bravery of men from Guadalajara, Oaxaca, or some other region." [Print 999-019-0303]

FG0318

"Policia que mata a su familia." Zinc etching. Signed. 9.0 x 14.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0318]

FG0360

"Verdadero versos corrido de Macario Romero." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 7.4 x 10.9 cm. [Print 999-019-0360]