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José Guadalupe Posada

Broadsheet relating to the plight of an orphan, young boy standing at the graves of his parents in a cemetery

ca. 1900–1913
Zincograph and letterpress on beige paper
29.6 × 20 cm (11.7 × 7.9 in)

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