The Street Gazette: Grand Inauguration of the New Racetrack Situated on Peñón Hill in Mexico City
José Guadalupe Posada
December 3, 1893
Medium
Relief engraving or photo relief etching with stenciled color on wove paper
Dimensions
40.5 × 30 cm (16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
52254
About the Artist
José Guadalupe Posada · 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...