A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'

A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'

José Guadalupe Posada

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The image of the woman holding her head also appears on the cover of the newspaper "El Teatro" (Imprenta de A. Vanegas Arroyo, May 17, 1891). It also appears in the broadsheet 46.46.103.

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'A gasping woman on the ground with her hands raised to her head, from a broadside entitled 'Gaceta Callejera'

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