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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
Los Charros Contrabandistas, a Dice Game, by José Guadalupe Posada
José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) · Vanegas Arroyo game sheet, 1913
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 dice game titled The Smuggling Charros, a relief etching with letterpress on yellow ground-wood paper, 30.5 by 40.5 cm.
Why it matters
The Vanegas Arroyo press sold games alongside its ballads and calaveras, and Posada drew them.
What to notice
The charros, Mexico's horsemen, are cast as smugglers, the outlaws of the border.
A game of chance with outlaws for pieces.
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 game sheet, 1913
- Source
- Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division · LCCN 99615952
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. The Commons master is a 6325x4762 TIFF; the catalogue hangs its JPEG rendition, which is what is measured and printed.
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