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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet showing a blindfolded man being executed (no letterpress in bottom section)

ca. 1890–1910
Type-metal engraving on buff paper
41 × 29.5 cm (16.1 × 11.6 in)

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