Broadsheet relating to a news story about the cause of a flood in Guanajuato, townspeople drowning

ca. 1905

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 7 15/16 in. (29.8 × 20.2 cm)
Collection no.: 46.46.135
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

José Guadalupe Posada. Broadsheet relating to a news story about the cause of a flood in Guanajuato, townspeople drowning. José Guadalupe Posada; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Broadsheet relating to a news story about the cause of a flood in Guanajuato, townspeople drowning — José Guadalupe Posada. ca. 1905.

Medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 3/4 × 7 15/16 in. (29.8 × 20.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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