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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

There is Something Beneath the Sackcloth, i.e. you can't judge a man by his clothes, plate eight from Los Proverbios

1815/24
Etching and burnished aquatint on ivory wove paper
21.2 × 32.1 cm (8.3 × 12.6 in)

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