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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet, on recto skeletons riding bicycles entitled 'From this famous hippodrome on the racetrack, not even a single journalist is missing. Death is inexorable and doesn't even respect those that you see here on bicycles'; on verso skeletons buying and selling printed images etc

ca. 1895–1900
Etching on zinc, woodcut, letterpress, relief printing
60 × 40 cm (23.6 × 15.7 in)

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