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Grand Electric Calavera, 1907. Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper.
Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper · 40.7 × 30.1 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Grand Electric Calavera as a Present to You, A Calavera of Pure Electricity
- Artist
- José Guadalupe Posada Mexican, 1852-1913
- Date
- 1907
- Medium
- Relief engraving or photo relief etching on paper
- Dimensions
- 40.7 × 30.1 cm (16 1/16 × 11 7/8 in.)
- Credit line
- William McCallin McKee Memorial Endowment, Joseph Brooks Fair and John H. Wrenn Memorial collections
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1852–1913
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.