# From the Track of This Famous Hippodrome, Not a Single Journalist Will Be Missing. Inexorable Death Has No Respect, Not Even for Those You See Here Riding Bicycles.

- By: José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1852-1913)
- Date: after 1895
- Medium: Relief engraving or photo-relief etching (engraving style) in black on tan wove paper
- Classification: Print
- Dimensions: 60.1 × 40.5 cm (23 11/16 × 16 in.)
- Culture: Mexico
- Credit line: William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, Joseph Brooks Fair and John H. Wrenn Memorial collections
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/133393)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/223cc3af-66a3-fd9f-95ed-e38d314964f3/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The mainstream press was also a target in Posada’s day. This satirical broadside shows bicycle-riding calaveras representing various newspapers who compete in a headlong race. Comically and symbolically attired, the competitors include the Roman Catholic daily El Tiempo, who wears a mitre and appears as Father Time, and El Partido Liberal, who wears a Phrygian cap.

Español: La prensa dominante fue también objeto de duras críticas durante la época de Posada. Esta satírica hoja volante muestra a un grupo de calaveras en bicicletas. Cada una representa a un periódico particular compitiendo desesperadamente en una apurada carrera. Ataviados con vestimentas cómicas y simbólicas, entre los competidores se encuentran el diario católico El Tiempo, que luce una mitra y cuya imagen remite a la figura del mítico padre del tiempo Cronos, y El Partido Liberal, que porta un gorro frigio.

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