Mexico
Posada — Broadsides & Calaveras
José Guadalupe Posada’s broadsides and calaveras.
The skeletons that outlived every regime they satirized.
1888–1913 · Mexico
La Calavera Catrina — José Guadalupe Posada
The skeleton in a fine lady’s hat that outlived every regime it satirized.
Calavera Oaxaqueña — José Guadalupe Posada, 1903
A second skeleton, satirizing a different vanity.
Gran Calavera Eléctrica — José Guadalupe Posada, c.1905
A whole crowd of skeletons, wired for the modern age.
Skeletons hawking their wares and shouting about teetotalers, drunkards, old men and kids, tomcats and working girls
Skeleton vendors bawl their pitch at teetotalers, drunkards, tomcats and working girls alike.
Skeletons of the good defenders
Skeletons dance across cheap orange paper — Posada's calavera broadside, printed to be bought, read, and thrown away.
Cupid's Skeleton (La Calavera de Cupido)
Love as a grinning skeleton — Posada arms a calavera Cupid and lets the bone show through.
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Skeletons (calaveras) dancing and drinking, corrida in bottom section
Calaveras drink and dance above a printed ballad, with a coquettish waitress at the centre of the trouble.