etching by Mexican printmaker José Guadalupe Posada.
The image has since become a staple of Mexican imagery,
and often is incorporated into artistic manifestations of the
Day of the Dead in November, such as altars and calavera costumes.
The etching was part of his series of calaveras, which were
humorous images of contemporary figures depicted as
skeletons, which often were accompanied by a poem.'
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