Vieil espagnol, from "The Portfolio"

Alphonse Legros French and British

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This elderly man, seated and facing left, wears the traditional Spanish cloak known as a Pañosa. The etching appears in "The Portfolio," in 1872, a publication edited by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1834–1894) that actively promoted printmaking.

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