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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

The Claws of a Cat and the Dress of a Devotee - similar to Vice is often clothed in Virtue's habit, plate nine from Los Proverbios

1815/24
Etching and burnished aquatint printed in sepia ink on ivory wove paper
21.7 × 32.7 cm (8.5 × 12.9 in)

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