Cover for 'Las Torres Blancas', a group of people walking and looking up at two white towers
Medium
Type-metal engraving and letterpress in red and black ink on tan paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 7 7/8 in. (14.8 × 20 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
46.46.219
Tags
Art Historical Context
This vibrant print serves as the cover for *Las Torres Blancas*The White Towers), created around 1900 by the renowned Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada in collaboration with publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. It captures a group of men and women walking and gazing upward awe at two striking white towers, evoking a sense of communal wonder or spectacle. Posada, a master of popular Mexican graphic art, often illustrated broadsheets and corridos—narrative ballads that commented on daily life, news, and folklore—making this piece a window into early 20th-century Mexican society. Produced us...