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José Guadalupe Posada|Antonio Vanegas Arroyo

Broadsheet relating to the sad cry of a poor orphan girl, her lament in verse in the bottom section

ca. 1895–1910
Zincograph and letterpress on tan paper
30 × 20.2 cm (11.8 × 8 in)

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