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.
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Calavera of Francisco Madero, from Calavera Maderista

José Guadalupe Posada (Mexican, 1851 - 1913)

publisher Print and Drawing Club of The Art Institute of Chicago

1944 (printed)

Medium
relief etching (zinc) on China paper
Classification
Print
Dimensions
sheet: 35.3 × 19.5 cm (13 7/8 × 7 11/16 in.)
Culture
Mexican
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CG-E
Credit line
Rosenwald Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

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