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José Guadalupe Posada

Printing block for Calavera of the Masses, no. 2

1910
Zinc alloy plate etched with nitric acid and engraved with burin nailed to wood block (photo-relief etching)
30.3 × 13.2 cm (11.9 × 5.2 in)

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