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Francisco Goya: etching from Los Caprichos, 1799 (Spain).  While the women in the image are commonly seen as a prostitute and her pimp, as it's almost New Year's Eve I could make an argument for their being an allegorical rendering of the wizened old year and the buxom new one.  A fitting end then for a year of images from the Redstone diary's black-and-white edition, and stay tuned in 2010 for weekly posts here from their "Russian Diary" that highlights Russian children's books published from 1920 - 1935.  And I do wish a buxom new year for all and sundry.