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Prepared from the source scan: surroundings removed and the sheet levelled where required. The source record remains available below.
Five Schools, Built to Deepen · Posada — Broadsides & Calaveras
Calaveras de Coyotes y Meseras, Broadside after José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) · Vanegas Arroyo calavera broadside, 1919
Format
Archival pigment giclée on museum-grade matte art paper, color-managed to the source scan — the flat inks and stone grain intact. The 40×60 is the room-changer.
Size
$39.00
What it is
A Day of the Dead broadside of calavera verses for coyotes and waitresses, a halftone relief with letterpress text on purple ground-wood paper, 29.7 by 40 cm.
Why it matters
Antonio Vanegas Arroyo published penny sheets in Mexico City with Posada's cuts. The Library of Congress dates this sheet to 1919, after Posada's death in 1913, when the press was still printing his images.
What to notice
The cheap coloured paper is part of the look: the press bought whatever stock came cheapest.
Whole trades mocked as skeletons, once a year.
Provenance
- School
- Posada — Broadsides & Calaveras (Various)
- Designer
- José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913)
- Printer / house
- Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Mexico City
- Format
- Broadside
- Poster published
- Vanegas Arroyo calavera broadside, 1919
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 99615917
Rights: CLEAR. Public domain — U.S. 95-year rule (published 1930 or earlier). Gated by the poster’s own publication year. Cleared by registry on 2026-11-01.
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