
Detail from | Detalle de: Gran baile de calaveras, 1906
Grand Ball of Calaveras | Gran baile de calaveras
José Guadalupe Posada (illustrator | ilustrador)
Anonymous (author) | Anónimo (autor)
Gran baile de calaveras
[Ciudad de] México: Imprenta de Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1906
This broadsheet presents a lighthearted variation on the medieval European allegorical concept of the Dance of Death. At a party in the graveyard, calaveras of all types—doctors and drunkards, soldiers and washerwomen—come together to dance, eat worms, and drink the tears of the grieving. “After death,” the text reads, “there is no social class or status.”
Esta hoja volante presenta una jocosa variación del concepto alegórico europeo medieval de la Danza de la Muerte. En tremenda fiesta en el cementerio, calaveras de todo tipo, médicos, borrachos, soldados y lavanderas se juntan para bailar, comer gusanos y beber las lágrimas “de viuditas desconsoladas y de herederos forzosos.” “Después de la muerte,” dice el texto, “no hay clases ni condición.”
: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs
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