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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet relating to the execution of Arnulfo Villegas in the Belen prison on 12 February 1908

ca. 1908
Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
30 × 19.5 cm (11.8 × 7.7 in)

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