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A skeleton covered with a sheet crying in a cemetery, from a broadside entitled ' Calavera llorando el hueso'

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Drawings and Prints

A skeleton covered with a sheet crying in a cemetery, from a broadside entitled ' Calavera llorando el hueso'

José Guadalupe Posada|José Sanchez

Date
ca. 1880–1910
Medium
Zincograph
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 in. × 5 3/8 in. (15.3 × 13.6 cm) Image: 5 1/8 × 4 3/4 in. (13 × 12 cm)
Object type
Print
Classification
Prints
Object number
60.678.60
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
  • Cross
  • Burials

The Met object ID 735949. 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.