A Posada calavera broadside, part of the same street-sold genre as the Catrina. Posada produced calaveras constantly and cheaply for the popular press — the form’s power was its volume and its reach, not any single masterwork. The same confident, economical line Posada used across hundreds of broadsides. Mortality, printed by the thousand and sold for a coin.

Maker: José Guadalupe Posada
Date: 1903
Medium of the original: Broadside
Original held by: Wikimedia Commons
Credit: Wikimedia Commons · via Wikimedia Commons
Rights: Cleared for print
Catalogue number: PA-00898

As chosen: 11 x 14 in, art print, classic frame
Picture	11 x 14 in
Outside size	12.6 x 15.6 in
Depth	0.9 in (22 mm)
Weight	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: shipped weight per size and frame]]
Hanging	[[REAL PROOF NEEDED: hanging hardware Prodigi fits to this frame]]
Material	Enhanced matte art paper, 200 gsm; acrylic glazing
Made in	Charlotte, North Carolina, by Prodigi

Before a size goes on sale, the file is measured against it: pixels per inch at that size, how much of the picture a crop would lose, tone and sharpness. A size that fails is not offered, so there is nothing to choose wrong.

How the print check works

Sizes offered
Size	dpi	Grade	How it fits
8 x 10 in	222	Excellent	Trimmed 5.9%
11 x 14 in	162	Good	Trimmed 4.2%

Sizes withheld
Size	Why
8 x 12 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
12 x 16 in	148 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
12 x 18 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
16 x 20 in	111 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
16 x 24 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
18 x 24 in	98 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
20 x 30 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
24 x 30 in	74 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
24 x 36 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop
30 x 40 in	59 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
36 x 48 in	49 dpi; a historical scan is never enlarged
40 x 60 in	Wrong shape: a 11% crop