The American mosquito that just appeared in Mexico

ca. 1903

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Type-metal engraving
Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (8.2 × 13 cm)
Collection no.: 30.82.24
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

José Guadalupe Posada. The American mosquito that just appeared in Mexico. José Guadalupe Posada; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930. 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

The American mosquito that just appeared in Mexico — José Guadalupe Posada. ca. 1903.

Medium: Type-metal engraving. Dimensions: Sheet: 3 1/4 × 5 1/8 in. (8.2 × 13 cm).

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

Credit line: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930.

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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