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Many of these prints speak to a culture of reprinting and reissuing of designs, common to this artistic community at this time. In some cases, on the ceasing of business of a given workshop, another would likely purchase its materials and continue to sell the designs under the name of the new printmaker. In other instances, a printmaker or their patron may have been contracted to engrave a design for another workshop; (this likely extended to matrices from both Mexican and Spanish workshops). Identifying ‘signatures’ usually took the form of the address of the workshop, so that it could be found for repeat business. \n\nManuel Villavicencio (1730-1788) was a printmaker active on Calle de Polilla, Mexico City. He was known for creating single leaf engravings and book illustrations. ","physicalDescription":"Depiction of St. Mames of Caesarea, standing with a staff and a book, with a lion at his feet. He is being crowned with a wreath by a cherub. The text below describes his martyrdom. 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