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Mexican, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1852, in Aguascalientes; died 20 January 1913, in Mexico.
Engraver, lithographer, draughtsman, illustrator.
José Posada was a teacher in Leon, Guanajuato, in 1873. He gave up teaching in 1878, moving to Mexico City to work as an engraver, though it is not known where he acquired his training. In the beginning, he worked for a publisher, illustrating
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Subjects: Art ; Biographical Studies
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