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The Starving Calavera by José Guadalupe Posada — VisualArtsDB

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Relief etching
The Starving Calavera

The Starving Calavera

The Starving Calavera

José Guadalupe Posada

1915

Medium: Relief engraving in typemetal on orange wove paper
Dimensions: 40.5 × 29.9 cm (16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Genre: Relief etching
Museum: Art Institute of Chicago

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