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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet with comic ballads about Mexico, figure with long legs playing the guitar

1920 (published)
Zincograph and letterpress on purple paper
29.5 × 19.5 cm (11.6 × 7.7 in)

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