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A skeleton holding a knife leaping over a pile of skulls, people flee in the background, from a broadside entitled 'Las bravisimas calaveras Guatemaltecas'

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A skeleton holding a knife leaping over a pile of skulls, people flee in the background, from a broadside entitled 'Las bravisimas calaveras Guatemaltecas'

José Guadalupe Posada|José Sanchez

Date
ca. 1880–1910
Medium
Zincograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in. (18 × 15 cm) Image: 6 1/8 × 4 15/16 in. (15.5 × 12.5 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
60.678.51
Credit line
Gift of Roberto Berdecio, 1960
Original Met record Artist authority

Artist information

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

Subjects and terms

  • Skeletons
  • Skulls

The Met object ID 735938. 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.