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Francisco José de Goya y Lucientes

If Two to One, Stuff Your Arse with Straw, from Los Proverbios

1815/24, published 1877
Etching and burnished aquatint on Japanese paper
21.7 × 32.8 cm (8.5 × 12.9 in)

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