Broadsheet relating to the soldiers' song
Medium
Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in. (30 × 20.2 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
46.46.151
Tags
Art Historical Context
This vibrant broadsheet, titled *Broadsheet Relating to Soldiers' Song*, was created in 1911 by the renowned Mexican printmaker José Posada in collaboration with publisher Antonio Van Arroyo. Printed using zincograph—a lithographic technique on zinc plates for bold images—and letterpress for crisp text on affordable tan paper, it a compact 11 13/16 × 7 15/16 inches. Housed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, this exemplifies the inexpensive, mass-produced ephemera that brought art to everyday Mexicans during a turbulent era. Dated to the early Mexican Revolutio...
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo · 1852–1913
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) was a Mexican printmaker and engraver who revolutionized popular art and created some of the most iconic images in Mexican culture. Working primarily with publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, he produced over 20,000 images during his career—inexpensive broadsheets sold for a penny on colored paper that made his art accessible to even the poorest workers. He transform...