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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Chez Les Trappistes; House of the Trappists
Date Made:1856
Type:Print
Materials:Heliogravure (Chine colle?) on white wove paper
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:image: 14 in x 11 1/2 in; 35.56 cm x 29.21 cm; sheet: 18 1/4 in x 13 3/8 in; 46.355 cm x 33.9725 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: lwr. l. (printed): FELICIEN ROPS; lwr. l. (graphite): M 223.R.478; ctr. (in plate): DESTRUCTION DE SODOME; lwr. ctr. (printed): CHEZ LES TRAPPISTES. / OU L'ON INCULQUE AUX ENFANTS LA MORALE PAR DES BOUCHES / QUE L'EGLISE SEULE A OUVERTES. / (D'apres la lettre pastorale de Mgr. L'Eveque de Gand.) / Septembre 1856; lwr. r. (in stone): F. Rops; lwr. r., under image (printed): IMP. DE PH. HAM, BRUXELLES. Verso of mat: lwr. l. (graphite): TR 11547/124; ctr. l. (graphite): C361-7; upr. l. (graphite): 257; ctr. top (graphite): 13. X 3; upr. r. (graphite): 13 X 2. 10; lwr. r. (graphite): 257.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.329
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
This print depicts five religious men (monks?) looking at a page titled "Destruction de Sodome" in a very large book. The title of the print includes the following (translation): "How one inculcates children with a morality spoken from mouths which the church only has opened."

Subjects:
Photogravures

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