The pantheon of all the skeletons who are eating and drinking in a cemetery (Posada); flanked by skeletons holding scythes (Manilla)
Medium
Zincograph, type-metal engraving and letterpress on green paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/4 × 11 13/16 in. (40 × 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
46.46.377
Tags
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|Manuel Manilla · 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...