Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.

Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.

José Guadalupe Posada

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image of the man, upper left of recto and the animal across from him are by Manilla. The other images are by Posada.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.Broadsheet with extravagant verses relating to a parade of animals dressed in costume and a corrido about an encounter between various animals.

The Department’s vast collection of works on paper comprises approximately 21,000 drawings, 1.2 million prints, and 12,000 illustrated books created in Europe and the Americas from about 1400 to the present day. Since its foundation in 1916, the Department has been committed to collecting a wide range of works on paper, which includes both pieces that are incredibly rare and lauded for their aesthetic appeal, as well as material that is more popular, functional, and ephemeral. The broad scope of the department’s collecting encourages questions of connoisseurship as well as those pertaining to function and context, and demonstrates the vital role that prints, drawings, and illustrated books have played throughout history.