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[Aquí estan las calaveras de Don Folias y el negrito] – Vintage Print

[Aquí estan las calaveras de Don Folias y el negrito], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic print
[Aquí estan las calaveras de Don Folias y el negrito], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic print from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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The title names the figures directly: Don Folias and the *negrito*, a stock comic type in Mexican popular prints, both shown as skeletons. The print is a zinc etching by José Guadalupe Posada, the Mexico City printmaker known for *calaveras*, skeleton satires sold as cheap broadsides and sheets around 1900. The caption card records no date, but Posada worked mainly from the 1880s until his death in 1913, and the image appeared in the 1979 book *Posada's Mexico*. Notice how he uses bare line and hatching to give the bones a lively, mocking energy.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 print : zinc etching.
NotesIllus. in: Posada's Mexico, ed. by Ron Tyler, 1979, p. 265, no. 181. Image credited to The Embassy of Mexico, Washington, D.C. This record contains unverified, data from old caption card and book.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,146 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-144677

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