La calavera de Don Juan Tenorio, Jose Guadalupe Posada - Manuel Manilla
Summary
Broadside shows a graveyard in which two skeletons are fencing each other, while another lies on the ground dead, and a fourth peeks from behind a tombstone. There are two small skulls, a small bird creature, and a small angel by a tomb used as decoration. The text concerns a calavera (verse epitaph) of Don Juan Tenorio and his battle with death. Don Juan Tenorio is a drama frequently enacted in observance of the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Talleres de la Test. de A V, Arroyo. Sta. Teresa núm. 40. México, D.F.
For use of the main image in a different broadside, see PGA - Vanegas, no. 74.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.572).
Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).
Collection of Skulls, bones and skeletons.
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