Humor

FG0012

La brava calavera del cinematografo. 1906. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, red paper. Zinc etchings. Signed in print: Posada. 15.0 x 23.2 cm. Tailpiece on verso illustrating a field of skulls and bones. Signed in print: Posada. 3.5 x 24.5 cm. The broadside is adorned with eighteen type-metal engraved vignettes, mostly skulls and calaveras. [Print 999-019-0012]

FG0017

Calaveras de Coyotes y Meseras. 1906. Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper. Zinc etching. Signed in print: Posada. 15 x 23.2 cm. The broadside is adorned with four type-metal vignettes. [Print 999-019-0017]

FG0025B

Tango del morrongo. 1903. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.6 x 13.3 cm. According to Berdecio & Applebaum (see bibliography), Gato morrongo was a name given to an etcher's assistant. [Print 999-019-0025B]

FG00031

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.
[Print 999-019-0031]

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]

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]

FG0083A

Repelito de catrines que les gusta enamorar y figuran mil jardines. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, pale yellow paper. Type metal engraving. Signed within print: Posada. 9.1 x 13.6 cm. Tyler 81: "Here Posada and the poet are ridiculing the dandy who does not have a cent to his name but who still tries to woo the women." [Print 999-019-0083A]

FG0083B

Repelito de catrines que les gusta enamorar y figuran mil jardines. . . Undated. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, pale yellow paper. Type metal engraving. Unsigned. 19.3 x 5.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0083B]

FG0087

Señora, su conejito ya no le gusta el zacate solo quiere chocolate que animal tan picudito. 1911. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, yellow paper. Type-metal engraving. Unsigned Attributed to Manuel Manilla. 7.9 x 10.8 cm. Tyler 78 : "The engraving is typical of Manilla's style. . . neither as delicately nor as facilely drawn as Posada's, and the whole composition seems to have a stiffness about it that characterizes Manilla's work." [Print 999-019-0087]

FG0101

Versos muy extravagantes divertidos fabulosos de reír y pasar el rato para todos los curiosos. 1911. Pictorial broadside verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, tan paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 7.2 x 12.6 cm. Tyler 76: "This broadside, which probably is better known in Mexico as El corrido de los animales, is similar to songs such as 'Froggie Went A-Courtin' in the English tradition of animal ballads. . . Although Vanegas Arroyo employed poets to write verses for him, the 'versos muy extravagantes' are based upon regional ballads that probably originated in Spain." [Print 999-019-0101]

FG0116

Dolor de muela. Dialogo comico en un acto. Editor Propietario A. Vanegas Arroyo. Mexico. 1904. 8 pp. 16mo chapbook. Zinc etching on cover, blue paper. Signed. 12.7 x 8.0 cm. Comic dialogue. [Print 999-019-0116]

FG0130A

!Tragica Muerte de las pesetas! Vida Alegre de los veintes! Undated. Pictorial leaflet (4 pp.) with verse, half sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper. Zinc etching. Unsigned. 9.3 x 12.2 cm. Tyler 96: "This print . . . probably relates to the change from the silver standard to the gold standard in 1905. . . . Posada graphically depicts the silver money, pesetas, being routed by the new money, veintes." Unsigned. 10 x 12 cm. [Print 999-019-0130A]

FG0173

"La bella Simona." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 7.8 x 7.5 cm. [Print 999-019-0173]

FG0184

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

FG0185

"Corrido: El empeñero." Zinc etching. Signed. 8.9 x 13.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0185]

FG0188

"Corrido: 'El ranchero y el gavilán.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 9.0 x 14.9 cm. [Print 999-019-0188]

FG0210

"La danza de los apuros." Zinc etching. Signed. 8.3 x 13.3 cm. [Print 999-019-0210]

FG0213

"Décimas 'La perra brava.'" Zinc etching. Unsigned. 8.8 x 14.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0213]

FG0226

"Doña Simona joven."Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 9.8 x 4.2 cm. [Print 999-019-0226]

FG0262

"Gavilanes en acción del corrido: El ranchero y el gavilan. 1905." Zinc etching. Unsigned. 5.4 x 13.9 cm. [Print 999-019-0262]

FG0288

"El marido de cien mujeres." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.3 x 13.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0288]

FG0339

"Los Sancho Panza." Type-metal engraving. Unsigned. 8.5 x 12.4 cm. [Print 999-019-0339]

FG0350

"Tango 'El Morrongo'.'' Unsigned. 7.5 x 13.2 cm. Printed from same plate as broadside FG0025B. [Print 999-019-0350]