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José Guadalupe Posada|José Sanchez

A skeleton holding a knife leaping over a pile of skulls, people flee in the background, from a broadside entitled 'Las bravisimas calaveras Guatemaltecas'

ca. 1880–1910
Zincograph
18 × 15 cm (7.1 × 5.9 in)

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