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Five Schools, Built to Deepen · Posada — Broadsides & Calaveras
Skeletons (calaveras) dancing and drinking, corrida in bottom section
José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913) · Published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1852–1917), 1910
What it is
Skeletons carouse across the upper register while a corrida — a printed ballad in verse — runs along the bottom, the whole thing turning on a coquettish waitress.
Why it matters
The Met dates the sheet to circa 1910 and records photorelief and letterpress on tan paper, about 40 by 29 centimetres, published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Image and text were pulled together in one pass, which is how these broadsides could be sold for coins. It reached the Museum as a gift from the artist Jean Charlot in 1930, one of the figures who pushed Posada's work into the art-historical canon.
What to notice
Calaveras drink and dance above a printed ballad, with a coquettish waitress at the centre of the trouble.
The skeletons that outlived every regime they satirized.
Provenance
- School
- Posada — Broadsides & Calaveras (Various)
- Designer
- José Guadalupe Posada (1852–1913)
- Format
- One-sheet
- Poster published
- Published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (1852–1917), 1910
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · 30.14.1
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 2026-07-18.
Format
The full-resolution, color-managed file — restored honestly, yours to print and keep.
Sized to protect print quality — this scan supports sizes up to 18x24" cleanly.
Size
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