Broadsheet relating to the capture of Valentin Mancera who is shown playing the guitar and being cornered by men in uniforms carrying weapons

ca.1902

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
Dimensions: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in. (30.3 × 19.8 cm)
Collection no.: 46.46.138
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

José Guadalupe Posada. Broadsheet relating to the capture of Valentin Mancera who is shown playing the guitar and being cornered by men in uniforms carrying weapons. 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 the capture of Valentin Mancera who is shown playing the guitar and being cornered by men in uniforms carrying weapons — José Guadalupe Posada. ca.1902.

Medium: Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper. Dimensions: Sheet: 11 15/16 × 7 13/16 in. (30.3 × 19.8 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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