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Maker(s):Beltrand, Camille; Rops, Felicien, after
Culture:French (1877-1951)
Title:Liberte pour tous; Liberty for All
Type:Print
Materials:Lithograph on cream wove paper
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:mat: 21 1/2 in x 16 in; 54.61 cm x 40.64 cm; sheet: 18 11/16 in x 14 1/4 in; 47.46625 cm x 36.195 cm; image: 12 1/8 in x 10 1/8 in; 30.7975 cm x 25.7175 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: upr. l. to ctr. to upr. r. and down (in plate): AVENIR PASSE; LIBERTE / POUR TOUS; LIBERALISM; BELGIQUE; SALETTE; MORT A LA / CONSTITUTION / VIVE PIE IX / ROI DE BELGES; C'EST NUES QUIFESSONS / ET QUI REPESSONS / LES JOLIS PETITS / LES JOLIS GARCONS; LUXURE; ORCUEIL; CALOMNIE; INQUISITION; SUCCESSION; SOCIETE DE / JESUS ET CIE; AVARICE; GOURMANDIES; PARESSE; lwr. l. (in plate): F. Rops; lwr. l. (graphite): 20+; lwr. r., under image (stamped): AB [encircled]; lwr. r. (graphite): [8 words in French - undecipherable]. Recto of front mat: upr. r. (graphite): 15 x 20; upr r., sideways (printed): I. M. P.; mid. r., sideways (printed): Halberstad's; lwr. r., sideways (printed): Emil Ganso. Recto of inside mat: lwr. r. (graphite): [. . .] / F. Rops / acq. 6/1 / 58 Ernest [. . .].
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.319
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 two women in the center, one with dark hair lying prone with a banner across her reading "Belgique", the other wearing a cape reading "Liberalisme" and beating off a group of men (friars?) with a stick who are tearing at the prone woman, trying to injure(?) her; group of figures in foreground with labels on them.

Subjects:
Lithography

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