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The poem 'Castillo en el Aire / Castle in the Air' and accompanying etching, from "Palabras Grabadas / Graven Words"

Gunther Gerzso

1989

Four flyers printed on one sheet

José Chávez Morado

1938

Infant Christ (from a Nativity)

Guatemalan

18th century

A ballad of the Mexican Revolution

José Guadalupe Posada

1913

Pottery Whistle

Mexican

mid 19th–late 19th century

Figure pendant

Colima or Mixtec

13th–15th century

Spindle Whorl

Mexican

9th–15th century

Pottery Whistle

Mexican

late 19th century

Eagle ornaments

Mexica (Aztec)

1325–1521 CE

Polishing Stone (pulidor)

Mexican

before 16th century

Stone Pulidor

Mexican

before 16th century

Cranes collecting skeletons and depositing them in a pit, from "El Machete"

Leopoldo Méndez

1935

Cover for "Nueva Coleccion de Canciones para el Presente Año"; a man with a guitar placing his arm around a woman's shoulder while another woman watches them

José Guadalupe Posada

ca. 1880–1910

Relief

Mexica (Aztec)

15th–early 16th century

Female Figure

Tlatilco

12th–9th century BCE

Spindle Whorl

Mexican

10th–early 16th century

A poster showing a seated Mexican blowing a trumpet with a human head representing the falsity of the press (fake news) with the title 'The laughter of the public—away with your nonsense'

José Chávez Morado

1939

Tzilinilli (crotal bell)

Aztec

10th–16th century

Angeline Beloff

Diego Rivera

1918

Plate 9: an allegory relating to the lack of freedom in the press efffected during the presidency of Porfirio Díaz , from the portfolio 'Estampas de la revolución Mexicana' (prints of the Mexican Revolution)

Leopoldo Méndez

1947

A standing girl illuminated in a doorway

Rufino Tamayo

ca. 1960

'People deserve bad political leaders when they tolerate them', caricature no. 46 from 'San Baltasar' (July 1873). A bound volume of caricatures and political satires from the Mexican newspapers 'La orquesta', 'El Padre Cobos', and 'San Baltasar: periódico chusco, amante de decir bromas y grocerias, afecto a las convivialidades, y con caricaturas'

Constantino Escalante

1865–1873

Incised Bowl

Mexican

before 16th century

Cover for 'Coleccion de Cartas Amorosas Cuaderno No. 2', a couple embracing

José Guadalupe Posada

ca. 1900

Bowl (Tecomate)

Olmec

12th–9th century BCE

Broadsheet with a song about a military reserve, military personnel in formation

José Guadalupe Posada

ca. 1890–1910

Diario de los niños. Literatura, entretenimiento e instrucción. 3 Vols.

Miguel Gonzalez

1839–40

A skeleton selling plucked chickens from a broadside entitled 'Una Calavera Chusca'

José Guadalupe Posada

ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)

A man in a hat kidnapping a child from a broadside entitled 'Los roba-chicos en acción'

José Guadalupe Posada

ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)

A woman crying with a handkerchief in her hand talking to an old hag, illustration for 'La Niña de las Perlas, published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

José Guadalupe Posada

ca. 1880–1910 (a later impression)

Coin, 10 Centavos

Mexican

1860–70

Bi-fold pages printed back and front (pages 1, 2, 7, & 8) from 'La prensa del pueblo' vol.1, number 12, September 1943 with an image by Posada on the cover

José Guadalupe Posada

1943

Earflare

Mexican

before 16th century

Stone Earflare

Mexican

before 16th century

Page 22: a man with his arm around a woman, demons terrorising another man at right, from '36 Grabados' (Mexico, 1943)

José Guadalupe Posada

1943

Letter from Cologne

José Luis Cuevas

1978

Plate

Mexican

ca. 1800

Flyer relating to the expropriation of foreign oil interests

Alfredo Zalce

ca 1938

Olmec Yokes and Axes

Miguel Covarrubias

ca. 1942–1957

A poster advertising a meeting in Mexico City supported by the Liga Pro-cultura Alemana relating to the subject of how to combat Fascism

Jesús Escobedo

1939

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