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José Guadalupe Posada|José Sanchez

A skeleton painting and another skeleton holding a bottle of liquor, from a broadside entitled 'Aqui esta la calavera del editor popular'

ca. 1880–1910
Zincograph
16.3 × 6.8 cm (6.4 × 2.7 in)

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