El armadillo cumple con su deber

Date: 1943

Medium: Scratchboard engraving

Dimensions (cm.):  12.2 x 13.3

Alternate titles: El armadillo cumple con su tarea; Armadillo cavando la fosa

Published edition: 

1. Incidentes melódicos del mundo irracional, p. 26.  Illustrated book published by La Estampa Mexicana and printed at the Talleres Gráficos de la Nación, 1944, in an edition of 1,200, 178 of which were numbered. Promotional materials stated that the images were printed from the original blocks.

2. Méndez 25 prints: portfolio of 25 images from Incidentes melódicos, hand-printed at the TGP on china paper,  in an edition of 25 numbered portfolios, 7 unnumbered portfolios. Published by La Estampa Mexicana, 1945. This image is number 5 in the portfolio. Each impression signed in graphite, lower right, and annotated 5 in graphite, lower right corner. 

3. Additional impressions, signed and unsigned, were printed outside the edition. Number of impressions unknown.

Contemporary publication:

1.  Incidentes melodicos del mundo irracional. See above.

2. Tricolor no. 5 (14 octubre, 1944), p. 26.

Principal references: Exposición de Homenaje 463; Prignitz 467; included in Prignitz 498-523

Selected additional references (illustrated): Reyes Palma 1994, pl. 85

Catalogue record number: 528