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A skeleton wearing a bishop's mitre reading a book (vignette for the feast of the dead)

José Guadalupe Posada
Credit: Gift of Jean Charlot, 1930
c. 1890-1910
Metal-plate engraving
6.5 x 6.0cm
30.82.2
Image © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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