Mexican Popular Printmaking
May 2026
These objects are all relief prints from Mexico representing the tradition of popular printmaking, including broadsides, corridos, and street literature that documented everyday life, social commentary, and folk tales.
232 objects · 5 institutions
A Neighborhood Dispute
Art Institute of Chicago
1907
A Woman Who Gave Birth to Three Children and Four Animals
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
A couple dancing while a band plays music in the background, illustration for 'La Tipica,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1894 (a later impression)
A man executed by garroting in the town square at Mixalco
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1880–1910
Alarming and Terrible Flood, Never Before Seen in Guanajuato!
Art Institute of Chicago
1905
All the Little Boys Ask for Their Tarasca
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Already the Authority...
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Amazing Event: Occured In Saint Michael of Mezquital...
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
An Outing of the Best in the Mexican Nation
Art Institute of Chicago
1895
Aquí están las calaveras de Don Folias y el Negrito (Here Are the Calaveras of Don Folias and El Negrito)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Arise from Your Graves, Calaveras...
Art Institute of Chicago
1904
Blue in Trajectory
Harvard Art Museums
1972
Broadsheet relating to the sensational story of a jealous man named Ramón Palma, who required extreme measures from his female lovers to demonstrate their loyalty to him
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1891
Broadsheet relating to womanizers who are standing on a corner looking up at a woman on a balcony
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca.1904
Broadsheet with songs for a two-step dance (paso doble), a man and woman talking while elegantly dressed couples dance in the background
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1918 (published)
Bullfight Dice-Game
Art Institute of Chicago
1898
Bullfighters
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera Pachuqueña
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera Tapatia
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera Tapatia
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera cismatica (Schismatic Calavera)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera de D. Francisco I. Madero
Harvard Art Museums
1912
Calavera de la hora oficial (Calavera of the Official Time)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera of Pouring Forth
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera of the Pilgrims that Have Died Walking the Streets and Are Now at Rest
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calavera: Historica-Religiosa (Calavera: Historic-Religious)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Calaveras of the Masses, no.1
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
Circus Game
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Colors of Changing Personalities
Harvard Art Museums
1972
Composition 14
Harvard Art Museums
1972
Con las suegras, poco y bueno (With the Mother-in-Laws, Little and Good)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Corrido del diestro Banderillero Antonio Soriano (a) Maera Chico (Ballad of the Skilled Bullfighter Antonio Soriano, also known as Maera Chico)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Corrido of A Brave Oaxacan
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
Corrido of Juan Dimio
Art Institute of Chicago
1913
Corrido of the Cockroach
Art Institute of Chicago
published c. 1918
Corrido of the Lottery
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Corrido:The Death Room of a Sentenced Man
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Cover for 'Olas que el Viento Arrastran para 1901', a man serenading a woman in a row boat
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1901
Crazy Machine!
Art Institute of Chicago
1920
Crime Never Before Seen!
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Crime Never Before Seen! (Tomás Sanchez)
Art Institute of Chicago
1902
Dance
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Death of Aurelio Caballero from Yellow Fever in Veracruz
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1892
Details of the Latest Execution
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Devils in the Graveyard
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Dispute of Spouses who are Always Angry
Art Institute of Chicago
1913
Dispute of Spouses who are Always Angry
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1912
Ejemplar y ciertisimo suceso en la Republica Mexicana (Exemplary and Truest Success in the Mexican Republic)
Art Institute of Chicago
1894
El fin del mundo se aproxima (The End of the World is Approaching)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
El novio de mil mujeres les da dinero y placeres (The Boyfriend of a Thousand Women Gives Them Money and Pleasure)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
El pagare de la charrita mexicana (The Promissory Note of La Charrita Mexicana)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Electric Light Arrives
Art Institute of Chicago
1900
Emiliano Zapata's supporters attacking a train, scene from the Mexican Revolution
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1911
End of the XIX Century
Art Institute of Chicago
September 1890
Execution by Firing Squad
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Extraordinary Miracle
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Fatal Tango!
Art Institute of Chicago
1921
First and Second Part of the Verses...
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Flood of Calaveras!
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Formidable inundación en la colonia Valle Gomez (The Formidable Flood in the Valle Gomez Neighborhood)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
From Torreón to Lerdo
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1905
Gambler
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Game of the Coyote
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Game of the Goose
Art Institute of Chicago
1909
General Manuel González on his deathbed, from a broadside entitled 'Arrival at the capital of the body of General Manuel González'
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1893
Glorious Remembrance of September 16th
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Glorious Success of Ponciano Díaz and His Brave Charros in the Bull Rings of Madrid
Art Institute of Chicago
1889
Gran fandango y francachela de todas las calaveras (Grand Dance and Wild Party of All the Calaveras)
Art Institute of Chicago
c.1900
Grand Ball of Calaveras
Art Institute of Chicago
1906
Great Bargain Sale, Selling All Mother-in-Laws
Art Institute of Chicago
1880–1913
Great Comet and Fiery Blaze
Art Institute of Chicago
1899
Great Triumphal March
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
Guadalupe Bejarano in the Dungeons of Belén Prison
Art Institute of Chicago
1891
Hand-me-downs of Dandies
Art Institute of Chicago
1912
Hand-me-downs of the Dandies
Art Institute of Chicago
1890–99
Heartfelt Pleas
Art Institute of Chicago
1890–99
Heartfelt Pleas Invoked by the Youth of 40 Years to the Miraculous St. Anthony of Padua Asking for his Consolation
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
Here is the Calaveron of the Penitentiary. Don't break, old bones, for your day has just arrived
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Horrible Crime Committed by Juan Riesca
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Horrible Murder!
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
Horrible Murder!
Art Institute of Chicago
1890s
Horrible Murder!
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1910
Horrible Murder! Shocking Parricide Committed by the Infamous Bernabe Manrique
Art Institute of Chicago
1880–1913
Horrible News!
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Horrible and Frightening Event!
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Horrible suceso (Horrible Incident)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
I Am Don Juan Tenorio
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
I Am Don Juan Tenorio
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
I Love You So Much
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
I Saw You Again
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Illustration for a Story
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
In Honor of the Lord of Wonders
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
In proof of true love, a watercarrier skeleton arguing with a woman (Posada); two skeleton angels in upper corners (Manilla)
Metropolitan Museum of Art
ca. 1890–96
Incredible Event: Woman Turns to Stone
Art Institute of Chicago
1903
Interesting News
Art Institute of Chicago
1903
Interior of the Collegiate Church of Guadalupe
Art Institute of Chicago
1898
Jarocho Corridor
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
La Calavera de D. Juan Tenorio (The Calavera of D. Juan Tenorio)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
La Calavera de D. Juan Tenorio (The Calavera of D. Juan Tenorio)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
La arranquera (Poverty)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
La milagrosa imagen del Señor del Rescate (The Miraculous Image of Our Savior)
Art Institute of Chicago
1903
La mujer con cien maridos como alfileres prendidos (The women with hundreds of husbands like pins on fire)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Lamentable and Frightening Example that Happened in the Town of Barca
Art Institute of Chicago
1890–1913
Lamentos que dirique (Laments That Direct)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Laments of a Helpless Orphan
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Legitimos versos de Lino Zamora (Legitimate Verses of Lino Zamora)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Little Rosen, the Lions, and the Toad. A Tale
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Long Live the Glorious 16th of September! Honor and Glory to the Priest from Dolores Don Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Initiator of our Independence. Long Live the Mexican Army!
Art Institute of Chicago
1899
Los nuevos versos de Carlos Coronado (The New Verses by Carlos Coronado)
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
Los patinadores (The Streetcleaners)
Art Institute of Chicago
1890/99
Lottery Game
Art Institute of Chicago
1880–1913
Madame, Your Little Rabbit...
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Madero Folk Songs: Even the Ground Trembled
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
March Dedicated to General C. Porfirio Diaz
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Maria the Traitor
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Merry Verse about the Mexican Revolution
Art Institute of Chicago
1913
Mexican Clown, no 6
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Mexican Clown, no. 5
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Mexican News
Cleveland Museum of Art
1851
Most Holy Virgin of Solitude
Art Institute of Chicago
published 1903
Mothers-in-law, Brothers-in-law, and Sons-in-law
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Mountain Man
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Murder of Don Francisco Aguirre
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
My Old Mother-in-Law is Always Ready to Scold without Any Reason
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
New Oracle or the Book of the Future (Nuevo Oraculo o sea el Libro del Porvenir)
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
New Verses from Carlos Coronado
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
New and Diverse Verses
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Now My Old Mother-in-Law...
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Oaxacan Songs
Art Institute of Chicago
1898
Pachuquenian Calavera
Art Institute of Chicago
1894
Pantheon of Miscellany
Art Institute of Chicago
1919
Patriotic Speeches
Art Institute of Chicago
1880
Pleito de la suegra con su yerno (Fight of the Mother-in-Law With Her Son-in-Law)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Portrait
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Prayer Dedicated to the Shadow of Saint Peter
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Pretending to be Ghosts
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Pretty Girls
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1911
Pájaros
GETTY
negative 1995; print 1996
Quarrel between Mother-in-law and Son-in-law
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Relox Cathedral
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Sad and Lamentable Cry of a Poor Little Orphan
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Saint Camilo de Lelis
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Saint George
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Saint Vincente Ferrer
Metropolitan Museum of Art
19th century
Segunda parte del triste y muy doloroso llanto fúnebre (Second Part of the Sad and Very Painful Funeral Cry)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Sensitive Death
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Shocking and Terrible Occurrence
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Signal T
Harvard Art Museums
1972
Souls in Purgatory
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Strange and Unheard of Event! A Pig with the Face of a Man, Eyes of a Fish, and a Horn on His Forehead!
Art Institute of Chicago
1900
The "Typical"
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1894
The American Mosquito
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Automobile
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Band
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Battle of May 5, 1862: The Great Triumph of Mexico over France!
Art Institute of Chicago
1888/1910
The Bicycle
Art Institute of Chicago
1895
The Big Dance, The Reservists
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Burial
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Butcher
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Calavera of Cholera
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Calavera of the Penitentiary Has Just Arrived. Don't Shrivel Up, Old Skins, Here is Rafael Buendia
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Calm Evening
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Centennial of Mexico's Independence in the Year 1910
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Charlatan Smugglers Dice Game
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Chinese Woman: Folk Songs
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Comet
Art Institute of Chicago
1899, printed 1910
The Comet
Art Institute of Chicago
1899, published 1910
The Continuation, Sirs, of the Forecasts
Art Institute of Chicago
1902
The Continuation, Sirs, of the Forecasts...
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Dandies
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Death of General Gonzales
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Derailment in Palo Blanco
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Devil Butts With His Head
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Disappointment Suffered by Don Chepito
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Doctor's Office
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Dragon of Corpus Christi
Art Institute of Chicago
1897
The Escape of Jesus Bruno Martinez from Belen Prison
Art Institute of Chicago
1892
The Farewell of a Man From Pachuca
Art Institute of Chicago
1920
The Fear of Guanajuato!
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Final Note
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Great Ascension
Art Institute of Chicago
1902
The Great Flood
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Great Halley's Comet
Art Institute of Chicago
1899, published 1910
The Heavens for a Kiss
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Horrible Calavera of the Flooding of Guanajuato
Art Institute of Chicago
1900/10
The Impromptu Doctor
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Independence Bell
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Infernal Calavera
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Jealous Wife
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Lovely Garbanzo-Sellers as Calaveras
Art Institute of Chicago
1880–1913
The Mausoleum of All the Calaveras That Are Found in a Heap
Art Institute of Chicago
1905
The Mexican Party
Art Institute of Chicago
1902
The New Coyote
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
The Police
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Popular Toastmaster
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Priestly Calavera
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Rebel Calavera of the Federal Army, Merchants, and Artisans
Art Institute of Chicago
September 1911
The San Juan de los Lagos Fair
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Skeleton of the Buses
Cleveland Museum of Art
c. 1900–10
The Sky for a Kiss
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Snail
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Soldier's Farewell
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Starving Calavera
Art Institute of Chicago
1915
The Street Gazette: Grand Inauguration of the New Racetrack Situated on Peñón Hill in Mexico City
Art Institute of Chicago
December 3, 1893
The Streetcleaners
Art Institute of Chicago
1890/99
The Streetcleaners
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Strikers of Orizaba
Art Institute of Chicago
1918
The Tap Dance
Art Institute of Chicago
published c. 1918
The Terrible Attempt Against the King of Spain
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Terrible Night
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Thundering Calavera of the Modern Bells
Art Institute of Chicago
1905
The Veterinarian
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
The Woman with 100 Husbands
Art Institute of Chicago
1901
To Die Dreaming
Art Institute of Chicago
1890s, printed in the 20th century
To Hear the Sad Cries of the baby Duck with Teresa
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Tremendo atentado (Tremendous Attempt)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Triumphant Cuba
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
True Portrait of Our Lord of the Hospital
Art Institute of Chicago
1903
True Verses about Lino Zamora
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
True Verses about Lino Zamora
Art Institute of Chicago
1911
Unas lindas mañanitas a las muchachas bonitas (A Lovely Serenade for the Pretty Ladies)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Unas lindas mañanitas a las muchachas bonitas (A Lovely Serenade for the Pretty Ladies)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Unusual Occurence! An Evil Spirit in the Form of a Beautiful Woman
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
Verses of Valentin Mancera
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Versos muy extravagantes (Very Extravagant Verses)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
Very Extravagant Verses
Art Institute of Chicago
1903
Very Extravagant Verses
Art Institute of Chicago
c. 1911
Very Terrible Example!
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
Very Terrible Example!
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
¡Adiós, adiós! El último corrido de la despedida de Chonforo Vico (Goodbye, Goodbye! The Last Ballad of Chonforo Vico's Farewell)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.
¡Terrible y verdadera noticia! (Terrible and Real News!)
Art Institute of Chicago
1910
¡Terrible y verdadera noticia! (Terrible and Real News!)
Art Institute of Chicago
n.d.