(b. Aguascalientes, Mexico, 1851; d. Mexico City, 1913).
This Mexican printmaker and draughtsman showed an aptitude for drawing as a child and briefly attended the Academia de Aguascalientes, where he was taught by Antonio Varela. Afterwards held a lithography apprenticeship in the workshop of Jose Trinidad Pedroza and began to attract attention with his critical illustrations for Pedroza's periodical El Jicote. Local political pressures forced both men to move in 1872 to Leon, Guanajuato, where Posada began wood-engraving. In 1884 he taught lithography at a local secondary school. Following the severe floods of 1888 he moved to Mexico City, where the following year he began to work as a draughtsman and engraver at Antonio Vanegas Arroyo's printing house, which he remained affiliated with until is death, and started to move away from lithography towards cheaper printmaking on zinc, wood and type metal for which he used for the greater part of his prolific output of 20,000 eng
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