Skeleton Collecting Crops With Baby on Back
- Title
- Skeleton Collecting Crops With Baby on Back
- Rights
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Public Domain.
- Creator
- Jose Guadalupe Posada (1851-1913)
- Date
- ca. 1880–1910
- Description
- Black and white zinc print. A female skeleton wearing a skirt and carrying a smaller skeleton (presumably a child) as well as a basket on her back. The larger skeleton is picking crops, while the smaller skeleton clutches onto the lightly colored cloth used to carry it. Both skeletons are facing to the right.
- Format
- Zincograph. Zinc plate print. 3 1/8 × 2 3/8 in. (8 × 6 cm)
- Publisher
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Contributor
- Akira Castillo
- Identifier
- 60.678.55
- Subject
- Dia; De; Los; Muertos; Day; of; the; Dead; Jose; Guadalupe; Posada; Skeletons; Calaveras; Death; Labor; Crops; Agriculture; Mexico.
- Source
- Jpeg file. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Digital Collection. Accessed October 20th, 2023.
- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/735941
- Item sets
- Calaveras of Dia De Los Muertos-Akira C.
- Site pages
- Jose Guadalupe Posada
