Title: 'People deserve bad political leaders when they tolerate them', caricature no. 46 from 'San Baltasar' (July 1873). A bound volume of caricatures and political satires from the Mexican newspapers 'La orquesta',  'El Padre Cobos', and 'San Baltasar: periódico chusco, amante de decir bromas y grocerias, afecto a las convivialidades, y con caricaturas'
Object type: Book
Date: 1865–1873
Artist:  Constantino Escalante 
Artist bio: Mexican, Mexico City 1836–1868 Mexico City
Artist nationality: Mexican
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: 12 1/16 × 8 11/16 × 1 7/16 in. (30.6 × 22 × 3.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1946
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY