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Thesis Proclamation of José Vicente Maldonado y Trespalacios, dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, 1756, Woodcut, letterpress and engraving (image of the Virgin) printed on white silk with a decorative metalic thread border backed with a panel of red silk., Sheet: 26 5/8 × 19 1/8 in. (67.6 × 48.5 cm), Prints, Baltasar Troncoso y Sotomayor (Mexican, 1725–1791), This is a thesis presented to the Royal University of Mexico by a candidate for a degree in Medicine. The thesis is dedicated to the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose image is included in the form of a small engraving with a Latin inscription that translates 'He hath done this for no other nation