Manilla and Posada Pictorial Collection
Collection
Identifier: PICT-000-428
Scope and Content
This collection contains a total of 6 broadsides, 4 by Posada and 2 by Manilla, all of which were printed by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo in Mexico City.
The collection was transferred from CSWR Manuscript Collections to CSWR Pictorial Collections in January 2000.
The collection was transferred from CSWR Manuscript Collections to CSWR Pictorial Collections in January 2000.
Dates
- [189-?]-1913
Language of Materials
Spanish
Access Restrictions
The collection is shelved in High Security.
Copy Restrictions
Duplication of print and photographic material is allowed for research purposes. User is responsible for copyright compliance. For more information see the Photographs and Images Research Guide and contact the Pictorial Archivist.
Biography
Little is known of the life and work of Manuel Manilla. He was born circa 1830, and died of typhus in the late 1890's. In 1882, Manilla began work as the first illustrator/engraver at Antonio Vanegas Arroyos studio in Mexico City. He is credited with making approximately 500 engravings while there, relating to subjects including street life, story characters, corridos, bullfighting, circus and magic scenes, and the Virgin. He was an artist of the people. Manilla was a teacher and predecessor of José Guadalupe Posada. Manilla began popularizing the calaveras, or skeleton caricatures, in the Mexican press. The calaveras were produced to be sold on the Dia de los Muertos, the Mexican Day of the Dead, celebrated on November 2nd. Shortly after José Guadalupe Posada began to work for Vanegas Arroyo in 1892, Manilla retired.
José Guadalupe Posada was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1852. For a short while, both men worked together at Antonio Vanegas Arroyos studio. Posada was an illustrator, engraver, and etcher. He was not well known or widely acclaimed during his lifetime. His popularity began in the years following the Mexican Revolution, and he is now considered one of Mexico's greatest printmakers. Vanegas Arroyo estimates that Posada produced more than 15,000 engravings, devoted to expressing the sorrows, joys, and hopes of the Mexican people. Diego Rivera wrote that "[a] study of his work would give a complete picture of the social life of the Mexican people... In Posada's work everything and everybody is caricatured as skeleton, from the cat to the cook, from Porfirio Díaz to Zapata, including the farmer, the artisan, the dandy, not to mention the worker, the peasant and indeed the Spanish coloniser." Posada died in 1913, soon after the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. He was buried in a paupers grave.
José Guadalupe Posada was born in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 1852. For a short while, both men worked together at Antonio Vanegas Arroyos studio. Posada was an illustrator, engraver, and etcher. He was not well known or widely acclaimed during his lifetime. His popularity began in the years following the Mexican Revolution, and he is now considered one of Mexico's greatest printmakers. Vanegas Arroyo estimates that Posada produced more than 15,000 engravings, devoted to expressing the sorrows, joys, and hopes of the Mexican people. Diego Rivera wrote that "[a] study of his work would give a complete picture of the social life of the Mexican people... In Posada's work everything and everybody is caricatured as skeleton, from the cat to the cook, from Porfirio Díaz to Zapata, including the farmer, the artisan, the dandy, not to mention the worker, the peasant and indeed the Spanish coloniser." Posada died in 1913, soon after the beginning of the Mexican Revolution. He was buried in a paupers grave.
Extent
6 items (1 box) : 6 broadsides
Physical Location
B2. Shelved in High Security by Pictorial Number.
Posada Prints Online
Some of the prints by José Guadalupe Posada from this collection are available, along with other Posada prints, in the José Guadalupe Posada Collection of Mexican Popular Prints, part of the Center for Southwest Research's digital Pictorial Collections.
General
Contact Information
- Center for Southwest Research
- Zimmerman Library
- University of New Mexico
- Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-1466
- Phone: 505-277-6451
- Fax: 505-277-0530
- Email: cswrref@unm.edu
- URL: http://eLibrary.unm.edu/cswr
- Title
- Finding Aid of the Manilla and Posada Pictorial Collection, [189-?]-1913
- Status
- Approved
- Author
- Processed by CSWR staff
- Date
- ©2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is in English
Revision Statements
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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