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Printed with black lines on cream-white paper, a skeleton carrying a bottle and wearing a hat, striped scarf, pants, and sandals walks to our left in this vertical etching. Filling the composition, the skeleton has a walrus handlebar mustache and a goatee. His straw hat has a wide brim and a pointed crown. His scarf drapes over his right shoulder, farther from us. The skeleton holds the scarf in his right hand and an oversized black bottle with a cork in his left hand. The bottle has lettering on the label to read “AGUAR” and “DE PAR.” A few vertical lines around his sandals suggest grass.

Calavera of Francisco Madero, from Calavera Maderista

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851 - 1913)

1944 (printed) · relief etching (zinc) on China paper

National Gallery of Art · Rosenwald Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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