226. "Doña Simona joven." Zinc etching: Overweight homely woman in skimpy dress and high heels. Unsigned. 9.8 x 4.2 cm.
227. "Ejemplo: Castigo de dios." Type-metal engraving: Man being struck by lightning; woman dead or injured on ground before him; another man fleeing through an opening in a brick or stone wall. Unsigned. 5.0 x 5.0 cm.
228. "Ejemplo: 'El endiablado' (1)." Type-metal engraving: Man lying on floor enveloped by a coiled snake, man at right holding snake's tail; left, startled woman and man, latter with serape and dagger. Unsigned. 7.7 x 13.0 cm. Similar, but not identical, to a reversed image in Berdecio & Appelbaum (55: "The man possessed by the Devil). See next.
229. "Ejemplo: 'El endiablado' (2)." Type-metal engraving: Man lying on floor enveloped by a coiled snake, man at left holding snake's tail; right, startled woman and man, latter with serape and dagger. Unsigned. 7.8 x 12.7 cm. Berdecio & Appelbaum 55: "The man possessed by the Devil." See preceding.
230. "Ejemplo: El hijo desobediente." Type-metal engraving: An agitated woman wearing a long-sleeved Victorian shirtwaist with white top and black skirt stands at left holding her palms together; at right is a screaming young boy being consumed by a gigantic black demon head with fiery mouth. Unsigned. 7.3 x 13.4 cm.
231. "Ejemplo: 'El rico haciendado.'" Zinc etching: A portly man in charro dress sits at a table pointing toward a woman and two boys whose backs are turned; behind the portly man is another man standing; under the table are bags of money marked $1000. Signed in print: Posada. 6.9 x 13.5 cm.
232. "Ejemplo: 'El rico haciendado.'" Zinc etching: Man in charro dress with long, striped, fringed serape and big sombrero shoots a smoking pistol at a fat, balding man whose sombrero falls to the ground; behind a rail at left another man raises his arms in panic; another man in sombrero exits at right. Signed in print: Posada. 7.9 x 13.4 cm.
233. "Ejemplo: 'En las profundidades de una mina.'" Zinc
etching: Three laborers discovering a dying woman with her baby
in a cave. Signed in print: Posada. 8.9 x 13.5 cm. Tyler
137. See broadside above entitled: ¡Horrible y espantosa
crimen! Perpetrado a mediados del mes de Agosto de 1900.--Una
mujer matada a bastonazos dentro de una cueva en la Villa de
Guadalupe.--Una niña abandanada.... Berdecio &
Appelbaum 253.
Tyler 137.
234. "Ejemplo: 'Enfame hija que da muerte a sus queridos padres.'" Type-metal engraving: Woman on long, full black dress wields a knife over a prostrate man and woman; two demons attempt to carry her away at right. Unsigned. 9.0 x 13.2 cm. Berdecio & Appelbaum 86.
235. "Ejemplo: 'Hallago de un cadaver.'" Zinc etching: Haggish woman with bun, long-sleeved blouse and patterned full skirt, raised arms and open mouth, opening a trunk containing a dead person with long hair; at left another woman in dark clothing standing with raised palms. Signed in print: Posada. 8.8 x 13.2 cm. Berdecio & Appelbaum 88.
236. "Ejemplo: La agonía de un mal hijo." Zinc etching: A crazed looking man in a bed; man on left, seated and writing on a piece of paper; at right of bed, a woman with an alarmed expression on her face; two men at right are exiting; under the bed are demons. Signed in print: Posada. 7.1 x 12.2 cm.
237. "Ejemplo: 'La mujer endrablada[?]." Zinc etching: Agitated crowd scene with woman wearing long skirt and rebozo throwing stones; three injured men on ground. Signed in print: Posada. 7.4 x 12.0 cm.
238. "Ejemplo: 'La niña degollada.'" Zinc etching: Man wearing suit, cape, and hat is shocked to discover a young girl decapitated on a bed. Unsigned. 7.7 x 13.1 cm. The illustration was used in the above broadside entitled: Crimen nunca visto! Tomás Sánchez, barbero que está establecido en Saltillo....
239. "Ejemplo: Los manos vicios." Zinc etching: On the floor of a bedroom in a pool of blood is a fallen man; another man wearing a sombrero and checkered pants raises a knife to attack a woman wearing an apron; a child raises his arms in fright. Signed in print: Posada. 7.6 x 11.9 cm.
240. "Ejemplo: Un hijo que mata a su padre." Type-metal engraving: A man with mustache and wearing a vest wields a club over an elderly man with grey hair and beard who has fallen to the floor; two agitated women in background. Signed in print: Posada. 6.9 x 11.8 cm.
241. "En el tren, Balazos en la calle de San Hipolito." Type-metal engraving: Man in mustache and sombrero with right arm extended stands on trolley platform. Three others rushing to the scene. Unsigned. 11.4 x 10.9 cm. This is the right side of the engraving shown in full in the broadside above entitled Balazos en la calle de San Hipólito en un tren de las corridas de Atzcapotzalco.--Una señora asesinada.--Does Gendarmes gravemente herridos.--Aprehensión del asesino por unvaliente y arrojado ciudadano [Gaceta Callejera No. 4]. The image has been altered to remove the pistol from the man's hand and the number "81" from the trolley. See Berdecio & Appelbaum, p. xv (fig. H); see also fig. 84 & p. 149 (note 84).
242. "Enganchado del Valle Nacional (fragmento)." Type-metal engraving: Group of bust portraits of women (fragment of Las 97 mujeres envenenadas en la carcel de Belén de México), combined with fragment from another image of soldiers guarding forced laborers. Unsigned. 6.7 x 11.6 cm. See broadsides above and restrikes, under title Las 97 mujeres envenenadas en la carcel de Belén de México.
243. "Los enganchadores." Zinc etching: Middle-class men in suits leaving a railway station from the front; peons leaving from the back. Signed in print: Posada [partially cut away]. 9.1 x 12.5 cm. See broadside above under title: Lamentos muy lastimeros que exhalan en hondos gritos los señores cantineros y los pobres borrachitos, where a man rushing to catch the train is part of the image, not found in this restrike.
244. "Los enmascarados." Zinc etching: Street scene with large group of well-dressed men and women in masks. Unsigned. 14.9 x 22.2 cm.
245. "Los espantos." Zinc etching: Body on bed; horrifying ghost with skull arising in an eerie light behind the bed; at right, an old crone sternly stares by a night table; at left, a man wields a club toward the ghost; other men look on in fright. Unsigned. 7.8 x 12.0 cm.
246. "Espantoso parricidio. Sensacional acontecimiento espantoso parricidio y verdadero ejemplo en el Saltillo, el día primero del mes pasado." Type-metal engraving: Horned demon with serpentine body clutches a man who is wielding a knife over a fallen man, while a woman in the background recoils with palms up; fish-like demons fly above. Unsigned. 8.1 x 12.7 cm. Berdecio & Appelbaum 83.
247. "Estranguladora." Zinc etching: At left, a wicked-looking woman in Victorian dress with big, puffy sleeves; at right, a dead or injured woman (perhaps an apparition?) wearing a simple white nightgown. Unsigned. 6.1 x 4.9 cm.
248. "Explotador del pueblo." Type-metal engraving: Poltical-social commentary: Caricature of two men riding a burro at left; bearded man with long coat and billed cap at center; at right, miners or laborers carrying materials down from mountain. Unsigned. 8.4 x 14.8 cm. The central figure is probably based on an actual person.
249. "Formación de penitenciarios." Zinc etching: Column of prisoners lined up in front of a guard tower in a prison; guards at right. Zinc etching: Unsigned. 10.2 x 7.2 cm.
250. "Un francés que se mata delante de su familia." Type-metal engraving: Left, man in suit and vest with pointed beard committing suicide by stabbing himself in the breast; at center, a young man extending his arm to try to stop the suicide; right, startled woman and girl in fine, dark dresses react in horror; framed picture on wall and table with candle at back right. Unsigned. 11.7 x 17.1 cm. Berdecio & Appelbaum 102: "'2a. parte
ejemplo los siete vicios' (second part of the ejemplo of the seven deadly sins."
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