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A skeleton wearing a bishop's mitre reading a book (vignette for the feast of the dead)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A skeleton wearing a bishop's mitre reading a book (vignette for the feast of the dead)

José Guadalupe Posada

Date
ca. 1890–1910
Medium
Type-metal engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 2 9/16 × 2 3/8 in. (6.5 × 6 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
30.82.2
Credit line
Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Mexican, 1851–1913

Subjects and terms

  • Books
  • Skeletons
  • Reading

The Met object ID 717600. The source CSV marks this record public domain, the official API identifies it as image-bearing, and the image was reverified as public domain before this page rendered.