Chapbooks, restrikes: items 154-175, 1888-1944
Series — Box: 6
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
This collection, compiled by noted Mexican art historian Fernando Gamboa, contains broadsides, portraits, chapbooks, and restrikes. The Gamboa collection consists of lithographs, etchings, and engravings by José Guadalupe Posada. A small number of prints in this collection have been attributed to Manuel Manilla or to other, unidentified printmakers. Many of these were published by the Vanegas Arroyo firm in Mexico City. The Gamboa collection contains 361 items: broadsides (108), bullfighter portrait series (5), chapbooks (9), leaflets (19), chapbook covers (12), and restrikes (208).
Included in the collection are songbooks, single-sheet corridos (popular ballads), how-to booklets on writing love letters and cooking, books of predictions, gameboards, lithographic portraits of bullfighters, devotional texts and images, and children's literature. All are illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada or, in some cases by Manuel Manilla and other (unidentified) artists. The restrikes were made c.1940-1944. These are prints of the illustration blocks without text. Subjects range from humorous to didactic, romantic to religious and political. Posada's signature "calaveras" (humorous skeletal figures) are represented, as are sensational crime and supernatural subjects, and popular songs printed by Mexico City's leading penny press publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Print processes include etching, type-metal engraving, and lithography.
Included in the collection are songbooks, single-sheet corridos (popular ballads), how-to booklets on writing love letters and cooking, books of predictions, gameboards, lithographic portraits of bullfighters, devotional texts and images, and children's literature. All are illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada or, in some cases by Manuel Manilla and other (unidentified) artists. The restrikes were made c.1940-1944. These are prints of the illustration blocks without text. Subjects range from humorous to didactic, romantic to religious and political. Posada's signature "calaveras" (humorous skeletal figures) are represented, as are sensational crime and supernatural subjects, and popular songs printed by Mexico City's leading penny press publisher Antonio Vanegas Arroyo. Print processes include etching, type-metal engraving, and lithography.
Dates
- 1888-1944
Language of Materials
From the Collection:
Spanish
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Extent
From the Collection: 361 items (12 boxes) : 108 broadsides, 5 portrait series, 9 chapbooks, 12 chapbook covers, 208 restrikes
Repository Details
Part of the UNM Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections Repository
Contact:
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451
University of New Mexico Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections
University Libraries, MSC05 3020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque NM 87131
505-277-6451