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Francisco (Pancho) Fierro

A soldier on horseback holding a rope that secures an enslaved indigenous man who is balancing a basket on his head; from a group of drawings depicting Peruvian dress

ca. 1848
Watercolor
22 × 20.5 cm (8.7 × 8.1 in)

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