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José Guadalupe Posada

A man stabbing another man in the chest while his associates loot a store, from a broadside entitled 'The theft at La Profesa'

ca. 1890–1891
Type-metal engraving
15.5 × 23.2 cm (6.1 × 9.1 in)

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