Don Pepito Contempla a las Presentes
Calaveras de Amigos y Parientes.

Don Pepito Contemplates the Calaveras of Friends and Relatives.

Broadside, engraving, recto, 1902
16" x 12"
Signed: Posada
JCC.JGP: C21

Social shortcomings in Mexico are portrayed in the caricature of Don Pepito (Chepito) Mariguano (Sir Joey the Pothead). He stands among a pile of skulls and muses over them.

'"Where has your beauty gone?
Where is the brightness of your eyes?
Now I see only two holes,
Your large teeth,
An incomplete nose."

He recognizes his family, friends, customers, and acquaintances--the tailor who made him an ill-fitted suit, and the wine dealer who taught him to drink and smoke pot. When they call to him to become a skull like them, he is horrified and flees.