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José Guadalupe Posada|José Sanchez

A skeleton covered with a sheet crying in a cemetery, from a broadside entitled ' Calavera llorando el hueso'

ca. 1880–1910
Zincograph
15.3 × 13.6 cm (6 × 5.4 in)

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