Calavera,Don Juan Tenorio,All Souls' Day,celebrations,fencing,Mexican Day,1909

Title: La calavera de Don Juan Tenorio
Title Translation: Don Juan Tenorio's calavera
Creator(s): Antonio Vanegas Arroyo (Firm), publisher
Related Names:
Manilla, Manuel , artist
Posada, José Guadalupe, 1852-1913 , artist
Date Created/Published: Mexico City : Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, [between 1909 and 1917]
Summary: Broadside shows a graveyard in which two skeletons are fencing each other, while another lies on the ground dead, and a fourth peeks from behind a tombstone. There are two small skulls, a small bird creature, and a small angel by a tomb used as decoration. The text concerns a calavera (verse epitaph) of Don Juan Tenorio and his battle with death. Don Juan Tenorio is a drama frequently enacted in observance of the Mexican Day of the Dead.
Notes:
Talleres de la Test. de A V, Arroyo. Sta. Teresa núm. 40. México, D.F.
For use of the main image in a different broadside, see PGA - Vanegas, no. 74.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1977; (DLC/PP-1977:215.572).
Forms part of: Caroline and Erwin Swann collection of caricature and cartoon (Library of Congress).
Subjects:
All Souls' Day--1910-1920.
Don Juan (Legendary character)--1910-1920.
Celebrations--Mexico--1900-1920.
Fencing--1900-1920.
Skeletons--1900-1920.
Broadsides--Mexican--1900-1920.
Bookmark /99615907/
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