Broadsheet relating to skeletons rising from their graves, two skeletons duelling with swords
Medium
Type-metal engraving and letterpress on orange paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 16 1/8 × 11 13/16 in. (41 × 30 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
Accession Number
46.46.379
Tags
About the Artist
Manuel Manilla|José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo
Manuel Manilla was a Mexican engraver and printmaker active in Mexico City during the late nineteenth century, where he became one of the most prolific popular artists of his era. Working primarily for the publishing house of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Manilla produced hundreds of woodcut and metal engravings that illustrated broadsheets, corridos, and cheap printed literature consumed by a wide urba...