The Graveyard of the Short-Haired Women | El panteón de las pelonas
Detail from | Detalle de: La nueva calavera del morrongo, 1903
The New Calavera of the Servant Class | La Nueva Calavera del Morrongo
José Guadalupe Posada & J. Cortés (illustrators | ilustradores)
Anonymous (author) | Anónimo (autor)
La Nueva Calavera del Morrongo o sea de Gatos y Garbanceras
[Ciudad de] México: A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1903
Almost nothing is known about J. Cortés, the artist whose scribbly upper-class calaveras are presented here. His calavera catrina (left) predates Posada’s by at least a decade. You can spot Cortés’s catrina and her little skeleton dog appearing in multiple Vanegas Arroyo calavera broadsides. The accompanying text is made up of derogatory satirical epitaphs of male and female domestic servants.
Se conoce muy poco de J. Cortés, el artista cuyas calaveras de la clase alta vemos aquí; su estilo asemeja bocetos. La calavera catrina que se observa a la izquierda apareció al menos una década antes que la de Posada. Esta elegante calavera que pasea a su perrito aparece múltiples veces en diferentes hojas volantes que Vanegas Arroyo imprimió para el Día de Muertos. Los versos en esta pieza son calaveras satíricas, de un tono un tanto denigrante, para empleadas y empleados domésticos.
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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