El Secertario de Los Amantes (The Lover's Assistant)
Date
Credits
- José Guadalupe Posada 7 Illustrator
Format
- Book 584
- Book Cover 178
Type of Work
- Finished work 5221
Printers
Publishers
Media
- paper 1081
Techniques
Dimensions
Locations Made
A sheet from a small booklet printed/published by Antonio Vanegas Arroyo with engravings by José Guadalupe Posada (possibly Manuel Manilla).
This is one of more than one printing. Not clear which.
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“Antonio Vanegas Arroyo was born in Puebla, Mexico around 1850; in 1867 he moved to Mexico City; he later established a printing house, and before the turn of the century issued a series of small theatrical works which were put in his Galería de Teatro Infantil; some of his publications had the advantage of being illustrated by José Guadalupe Posada; between them they produced Perico el incorregible, Casa de vecindad and Celos de negro con don Folías ; Vanegas Arroyo published the journals La gaceta callejera, El boletín, El jicote, El teatro, El centavo perdido, and others; he also published the Secretario de los amantes.”
https://exhibits.lib.berkeley.edu/spotlight/art-of-posada/catalog/28-1422
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“Posada left his small village of Aquascalientes, where he had attended a drawing academy, to become an apprentice lithographer in Mexico City. He had shown a talent for engraving, which he originally did on wood. In Mexico City, he opened a small shop where he did commercial illustrations. In 1887, he joined the Antonio Vanegas Arroyo Publishing House, doing illustrations for a wide variety of printed publications, many of which had editions in the thousands.”
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/ft1r29n6tm/admin/
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