Calaveras, revelación de ultra tumba del espÃritu de Francisco …
1 print on natural ground wood paper : relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows bust portrait of Francisco Villa and two small skulls. It also shows two skeletons in Asian dress. The borders on this broadside include ivy, roses, holly, and on the four corners each has a devil extending its tail in front of…
La calavera del editor popular Antonio Vanegas Arroyo
1 print on natural ground wood paper : relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40 x 30 cm (sheet) | Broadside shows the skeleton of publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo dressed in a bowler hat, dark glasses and a suit and sporting a long beard and mustache, standing in his print shop. Small skeletons work at aspects of publishing at his feet: printing, engraving,…
Aquà la calavera está, señores, de toditos los buenos valedores
1 print on tan ground wood paper : relief etching and relief cut, with text in letterpress ; 40.2 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows man, arms folded, as a protector or bodyguard, standing before a pile of skulls. Four other skeletons appear lower left and right of the broadside. The text in verse conveys the grand life which can be had by…
Calavera tapatia
1 print on yellow ground wood paper : relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 40.3 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows a male skeleton having a drink of tequila and smoking a cigar. On a table before him lie various objects. A child skeleton looks over his shoulder. Six small decorative skulls break up the text. The text is a calavera in…
Contributor:
Manilla, Manuel - Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)
Date:1910-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Calaveras del montón, número 1
1 print on pink ground wood paper : relief etchings and relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.5 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete in a graveyard, apparently in the process of creating more skeletons--a crowd of skeletons surround him and skulls lie at his feet. The text block is decorated…
Esta es de Don Quijote la primera, la sin par la gigante calave…
1 print on tan ground wood paper : relief etchings and relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 60 x 40.5 cm. (sheet). | Broadside depicting a calavera of Don Quixote riding an equally skeletal horse. He charges other skeletons with his lance. They are trampled, flee in fear and fly into the air. A second image below that of Don Quixote shows calaveras…
La calavera de Don Juan Tenorio
1 print on natural ground wood paper : relief cuts and relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 30 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows a graveyard in which two skeletons are fencing each other, while another lies on the ground dead, and a fourth peeks from behind a tombstone. There are two small skulls, a small bird creature, and a small angel…
Calaveras de caudillos de silla presidencial
1 print on tan ground wood paper : relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows three images of calaveras. In the center image, people flee a fearsome calavera wielding a leg bone. On the left, a calavera photographer shoots a camera. On the right, a calavera artist paints a picture, while a calavera bartender mixes a…
Calavera comercial. Estas son las calaveras de todos los comerc…
1 print on pale yellow ground wood paper : relief etching, with text in letterpress ; 40.4 x 30.2 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows skeletons patronizing a merchant skeleton selling such items as candles and sugar skulls for the Day of the Dead celebration. The text, a calavera in verse, conveys how "la flaca" (death) is making her rounds amongst all the food vendors…
La horrorosa calavera de la inundación de Guanajuato
1 print on green ground wood paper : relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 40.6 x 29.6 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows a large skull with several small skulls and skeletons on the recto and verso. The smaller images of skulls and skeletons are shown with corresponding objects conveying some attribute to a type of work or profession. The text both on the…
Contributor:
Manilla, Manuel - Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)
Date:1905-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Levantáos de sus fosas, calaveras que aqu[Ã] se halla el mayor …
1 print on green ground wood paper : relief cuts and relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.8 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows fencing calaveras, laughing calaveras, small calaveras, a shrouded calavera, as well as others pulling a man into a grave. The narrator, Don Juan Tenorio, boasts and asks the keyholder to open the door to the underworld. He recounts…
Contributor:
Manilla, Manuel - Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)
Date:1904-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
La calavera Oaxaqueña
1 print on colored paper : lithograph with letterpress ; 43 x 30 cm. | Print shows a male skeleton dressed in a charro outfit wielding a machete among skulls and skeletons. Includes song lyrics and cartoon skeleton figures.
Gran mole de calaveras. Aquà está el sabroso mole, el mole más …
1 print on red ground wood paper : relief etchings and relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 40.4 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside, on recto, shows skeletons having a picnic in a graveyard, embellished with decorative elements of small skulls and two grim reapers. Verso shows five skeleton images, with four of them as food vendors making their products. The text on…
El fin del mundo es ya cierto todos serán calaveras; adiós todo…
1 print on purple ground wood paper : relief cuts and relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside, recto, shows skeletons in pandemonium because of cataclysmic natural events around them. There are also three small skeletons heading the text. The text, a calavera in verse (epitaph), predicts an apocalypse as the year 1899 ends. The verso shows…
El purgatório artÃstico, en el que yacen las calaveras de los a…
1 print on tan ground wood paper : relief etchings and relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 60 x 40.5 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows the second level of hell, in which the calaveras of artists and artisans hold objects relating to their profession, including musical instruments, a palette, and paper. Below the main image, the text block consists of eight skulls with…
Gran bola de garbanceras que, por ser muy pretensiosas, se volv…
1 print on fuchsia ground wood paper : relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.1 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | 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,…
Contributor:
Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)
Date:1890-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Gran bola de garbanceras--que por ser muy pretenciosas, se volv…
1 print on yellow ground wood paper : relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 40.3 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | 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,…
La Calavera Sevillana, esta hermosa calavera que fue de un gran…
1 print on pale green ground wood paper : relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 39.9 x 29.8 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows a skull decorated with the implements and costume of bullfighting. Small skulls and skeletons decorate the borders. The text in calavera verse conveys a listing of the better known bullfighters in Mexico which Cuatro Dedos (Four Fingers) is presenting.
La Calavera Sevillana esta hermosa calavera que fue de un grand…
1 print on red ground wood paper : relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 39.7 x 30.2 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows skull decorated with the implements and costume of bullfighting. Small skulls and skeletons decorate the borders. The text in calavera verse conveys a listing of the better known bullfighters in Mexico which Cuatro Dedos (Four Fingers) is presenting.
Calaveras de confianza que les dara su pitanza
1 print on red ground wood paper : relief etchings and relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 40.2 x 30.3 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows skeletons and skulls from different walks of life--the barber, mailman, poltician, policeman, musician, bullfighter--all have a verse and a small calevera assigned to them.
El corrido de la muerte
1 print on natural ground wood paper : relief cuts and relief etchings, with text in letterpress ; 29.7 x 20.8 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows small calaveras, or skeletons, five of which make reference to Asian individuals. The text is classically a calavera in verse (epitaph). On the verso there is an image of Don Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla with three men and…
Revunvio de calaveras de catrines y borrachos, de viejos y de m…
1 print on orange ground wood paper : relief cut, with text in letterpress ; 39.4 x 29.9 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows a calavera instructing people to go into the graveyard. The text conveys how the time will come for everyone to end up there. A second calavera in verse (epitaph) is titled "Calavera widows, calavera married women, and calavera young ladies are…
Contributor:
Manilla, Manuel - Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)
Date:1880-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Segunda calavera taurina de la nueva estudiantina. A este toro …
1 print on pink ground wood paper : relief cuts, with text in letterpress ; 39.9 x 30.1 cm. (sheet). | Broadside shows four human skeletons in triangular hats and carrying musical instruments taunting a skeleton bull. The text, in verse, conveys the slaying of the bull and speaks of death in general.
Contributor:
Manilla, Manuel - Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm)