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A man stabbing another man in the chest while his associates loot a store, from a broadside entitled 'The theft at La Profesa'

José Guadalupe Posada

Credit: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930
c. 1890-1891
Etching on zinc
15.5 x 23.2cm
30.82.94
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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