DISCOVERART

José Guadalupe Posada

Broadsheet with comic verses, a group of animals wearing human clothes and playing music

ca. 1908
Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
30.5 × 20.2 cm (12 × 8 in)

SEE IT IN PERSON

Not currently on view

In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

View at metmuseum.org ↗Plan a visit ↗

Discussion

Be the first to share your thoughts.

Sign in to join the discussion.

Community guidelines

More by José Guadalupe Posada

Fight between mothers-in-law from a broadside entitled 'Pleito de suegras'Fight between mothers-in-law from a broadside entitled 'PleiA man who has just stabbed himself falls backwards accompanied by three peopleA man who has just stabbed himself falls backwards accompaniThe double murder in Puente de los GallosThe double murder in Puente de los GallosThe American mosquito that just appeared in MexicoThe American mosquito that just appeared in MexicoA man grabbing a woman by her sleeve and stabbing her, from a broadside entitled 'The murder of Leandra Martinez by her brother, Manuel'A man grabbing a woman by her sleeve and stabbing her, from Men fighting near a horse and carriageMen fighting near a horse and carriageSiamese TwinsSiamese TwinsA group of men looking at a man's back with an image of the CrucifixionA group of men looking at a man's back with an image of the

More like this

Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|Manuel Manilla Broadsheet relating to mothers-in-law, brothers-in-law and sons fighting, the words spoken by each in sections below and on versoJosé Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo — Broadsheet reBroadsheet relating to a worker's strike in Orizaba, workers holding up the Mexican flag, flanked by soldiersJosé Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo — Broadsheet reCon las suegras, poco y bueno (With the Mother-in-Laws, Little and Good)Manuel Manilla — Con las suegras, poco y bueno (With the MotBroadsheet with songs for a Mexican courtship dance called the 'Jarabe Moreliano', a crowd of people and musciansJosé Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo — Broadsheet wiBroadsheet featuring three love ballads with vignettes showing a woman reading, a woman's head in a heart pierced by an arrow and a woman walkingJosé Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo — Broadsheet feBroadsheet with victim accounts from a flood in Guanajuato, crowd of people waiving their hands and prayingAntonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada — Broadsheet wiBroadsheet relating to a worker's strike in Orizaba, workers holding up the Mexican flag, flanked by soldiersJosé Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo — Broadsheet reSkeletons of the good defendersManuel Manilla|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada Broadside about a brave man from the west coast of Mexico, who is shown walking down a street wearing a sombreroAntonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada — Broadside aboBroadsheet relating to people being tricked into working in tobacco fields, a man warning a crowd about harsh labor conditionsAntonio Vanegas Arroyo|José Guadalupe Posada — Broadsheet reBroadsheet relating to the racket caused by the skeletons (catrines and drunkards), a corrida (ballad) in the bottom sectionAntonio Vanegas Arroyo|Anonymous — Broadsheet relating to th