Broadside 'Calaveras unite': many small skeletons identified by names some engaged in raising a huge skeleton using a pulley

Ignacio Aguirre Mexican

Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City Mexican

1938

Not on view

Artwork Details

Title: Broadside 'Calaveras unite': many small skeletons identified by names some engaged in raising a huge skeleton using a pulley
Artist: Ignacio Aguirre (Mexican, San Sebastián, Jalisco 1900–1990 Mexico City)
Publisher: Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
Date: 1938
Medium: Lithograph in black on buff paper backed with linen
Dimensions: Sheet: 26 3/8 × 16 15/16 in. (67 × 43 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
Object Number: 46.46.512
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

More Artwork

By Ignacio Aguirre

In the same medium

From the same time and place

Plate 36: Venustiano Carranza addressing rebel leaders, from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution), Ignacio Aguirre Mexican, Linocut — Plate 36: Venustiano Carranza addressing rebel leaders, from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Ignacio Aguirre
Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
1947

Teponaztli, Wood, Mexico — Teponaztli
Mexico
20th century

May Belfort, Title page for "Treize Lithographies", Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec French, Crayon lithograph on china paper, pasted onto green linen portfolio cover — May Belfort, Title page for "Treize Lithographies"
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Subject May Belfort
1898, published after 1901

Plate 58: figures gathering the dead, an allegory of the sovereignty of the village, from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution), Ignacio Aguirre Mexican, Linocut — Plate 58: figures gathering the dead, an allegory of the sovereignty of the village, from "Estampas de la Revolución Mexicana" (Prints of the Mexican Revolution)
Ignacio Aguirre
Publisher Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico City
1947

International exhibition of surrealism, André Breton French — International exhibition of surrealism
Editor André Breton
Translator José Vázquez Amaral
Publisher Galeria de Arte Mexicano
1940

Research Resources

The Met provides unparalleled resources for research and welcomes an international community of students and scholars. The Met's Open Access API is where creators and researchers can connect to the The Met collection. Open Access data and public domain images are available for unrestricted commercial and noncommercial use without permission or fee.

To request images under copyright and other restrictions, please use this Image Request form.

Feedback

We continue to research and examine historical and cultural context for objects in The Met collection. If you have comments or questions about this object record, please contact us using the form below. The Museum looks forward to receiving your comments.

Send feedback

Content Notice

The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world, and our online collection reflects ongoing work conducted over the course of our more than 150-year history. You may encounter objects or images that may be inappropriate for some viewers or information that may be outdated.