A portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

A portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

José Guadalupe Posada

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

"M. Acuña. Colección de canciones modernas," no. 31 (Imprenta de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1902 reprint, ca. 1895).

Drawings and Prints

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

A portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas ArroyoA portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas ArroyoA portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas ArroyoA portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas ArroyoA portrait of Manuel Acuña, illustration for 'Manuel Acuña,' published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

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.