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Figs. 11-12. Two examples from a lithograph series by the early-nineteenth-century Parisian, Nicolas-Eustache Mau-
rin, inspired by contemporary Conquest of Mexico operas by the Italians Spontini and Pacini. Like the operas, the
lithographs interspersed fictional and historical characters (here Cortés receives a princess from, and then shows
mercy to, fictionalized Aztecs).
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