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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet with a ballad about a man who stands outside his lover's window and sings to her

ca.1905
Type-metal engraving and letterpress on pink paper
30 × 20 cm (11.8 × 7.9 in)

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