Broadsheet with verse relating to Don Luis Cabrera ('scourge of the nation') who is shown standing in the center wearing a top hat
1920 (published)
Medium
Photo-relief and letterpress on pink paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 7 11/16 in. (30.5 × 19.5 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
46.46.162
Tags
About the Artist
Manuel Manilla|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...