Broadside with two love ballads (corridos), figures dancing upper left and a woman wearing a shawl and skirt lower right
ca. 1918 (published)
Medium
Type-metal engraving and letterpress on blue paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 12 in. × 7 3/4 in. (30.5 × 19.7 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
46.46.194
Tags
Art Historical Context
This vibrant broadside, printed around 1918 by publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo with illustrations by the legendary Mexican artist José Guadalupe Pos, captures the lively spirit of popular Mexican culture through two love ballads known as *corridos*. These narrative folk songs, often sung and shared among the working class, tell tales of romance, adventure, and everyday drama. The composition features energetic dancers in the upper left, evoking festive revelry, contrasted with a poised woman in a shawl and skirt below right—hallmarks of traditional Mexican attire that ground the scene in rura...