VELASCO, Jose Maria, (Mexican, 1840-1912): Landscape painting with Butte, Oil/Paper, sight size 3 1/2'' x 5'', paper size 5 1/2'' x 8 1/4'', signed Jose M Velasco Mexico, dated 1911, written verso in Spanish is a poem titled ''Last Moment'', by the Honorable Joaquin B. Casasus, Mexican Ambassador to the US, 1908-1916. Former collection of Artemio de Valle Arizpe, an important Mexican Historian, Writer, and Diplomat to Spain, Belgium, and Holland.