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A snake with a woman's head slithering towards a scared man, an illustration from 'The Ballad of the Snake Woman' (reprinted 1930)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A snake with a woman's head slithering towards a scared man, an illustration from 'The Ballad of the Snake Woman' (reprinted 1930)

José Sanchez|José Guadalupe Posada

Date
ca. 1880–1910
Medium
Zincograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 4 5/8 × 5 7/8 in. (11.7 × 15 cm) Image: 3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in. (8 × 11.8 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
60.678.40
Credit line
Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

Mexican, active ca. 1900–1910|Mexican, 1851–1913

Subjects and terms

  • Fear
  • Men
  • Snakes

The Met object ID 735930. 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.