Calavera de los bravos Ku Kus Klanes.

Satirical broadside for the Day of the Dead depicting a skeleton beckoning a hooded Ku Klux Klan knight. The author is José Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913), a Mexican illustrator known for his satirical and politically acute Calaveras (skulls), that become closely associated with the mexican holiday Día de los Muertos, the Day of the Dead. Most of these calaveras were published by the press of Antonio Vanegas Arroyo which produced inexpensive literature for the lower classes. Vanegas Arroyo (Puebla, 1850 - México, D. F., 1917) was a famous Mexican printer and publisher. His press, first in Santa Teresa street, moved in 1920 to Avenue Guatemala, so this print is made by his heirs and after 1920.

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