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José Guadalupe Posada

Female skeleton playing the guitar (vignette for the feast of the dead)

ca. 1890–1910
Type-metal engraving (photomechanical reproduction?, letterpress on verso)
7 × 6 cm (2.8 × 2.4 in)

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In the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · as of July 2026

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