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Photo, Print, Drawing Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán calaveras podridas y apestosas

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Title

  • Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volverán calaveras podridas y apestosas

Translated Title

  • Big bunch of serving maids that, for being so pretentious, will become putrid and smelly calaveras

Summary

  • Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons purchasing such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. A female skeleton carrying a skull and a male skeleton carrying a basket face each other lower left and lower right. The text, in verse, jokes about the graces of serving maids who are not to be trusted with one's love. On the verso are four skeletons, two in fancy dress (male and female) and two others in simple clothing (male and female). The verso text conveys a calavera in verse directed at catrinas and catrines (fancy ladies and dandies), saying no matter how well groomed they may be they will wind up in hell with all their pretenses. Also on the verso there is a short calavera verse titled "Epitaphs." This broadside is similar to PGA - Vanegas, no. 35, except no. 35 is printed on brown wood paper and has different borders and headline fonts.

Names

  • Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm), publisher

Created / Published

  • Mexico City : Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [between 1890 and 1909]

Headings

  • -  All Souls' Day--1890-1910
  • -  Celebrations--Mexico--1890-1910
  • -  Dandies--Mexico--1890-1910
  • -  Servants--Mexico--1890-1910
  • -  Skeletons--1890-1910
  • -  Snobbishness--1890-1910

Headings

  • Broadsides--Mexican--1890-1910.

Genre

  • Broadsides--Mexican--1890-1910

Notes

  • -  Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, Calle de Santa Teresa número 1. México.
  • -  For use of this image on a different broadside, see PGA - Vanegas, no. 92.
  • -  Images attributed to J. Cortes.
  • -  Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.538).
  • -  Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).

Medium

  • 1 print on fuchsia ground wood paper : relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.9 cm. (sheet).

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PGA - Vanegas, no. 93 (A size) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress)

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. USA 20540

Digital Id

  • ppmsc 04553 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04553
  • ppmsc 04554 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.04554

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 99615863

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsc-04553 (digital file from original, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsc-04554 (digital file from original, verso)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on reproduction in the U.S.; use elsewhere may be restricted by other countries' laws.

Access Advisory

  • Restricted access: Materials extremely fragile; Served by appointment only.

Online Format

  • image

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsc-04553 (digital file from original, recto) LC-DIG-ppmsc-04554 (digital file from original, verso)
  • Call Number: PGA - Vanegas, no. 93 (A size) [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo , Publisher. Gran Bola De Garbanceras Que, Por Ser Muy Pretensiosas, Se Volverán Calaveras Podridas Y Apestosas. Mexico, None. [Mexico city: antonio vanegas arroyo, between 1890 and 1909] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/99615863/.

APA citation style:

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, P. Gran Bola De Garbanceras Que, Por Ser Muy Pretensiosas, Se Volverán Calaveras Podridas Y Apestosas. Mexico, None. [Mexico city: antonio vanegas arroyo, between 1890 and 1909] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99615863/.

MLA citation style:

Antonio Vanegas Arroyo , Publisher. Gran Bola De Garbanceras Que, Por Ser Muy Pretensiosas, Se Volverán Calaveras Podridas Y Apestosas. [Mexico city: antonio vanegas arroyo, between 1890 and 1909] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/99615863/>.