| Maker(s): | Rops, Felicien | | Culture: | Belgian (1833-1898)
| | Title: | Le Vice Supreme; Supreme Vice [large plate]
| | Date Made: | 1884
| | Type: | Print
| | Materials: | Etching on ivory wove paper
| | Place Made: | Europe
| | Measurements: | mat: 18 in x 14 in; 45.72 cm x 35.56 cm; sheet: 17 7/16 in x 12 7/8 in; 44.29125 cm x 32.7025 cm; plate: 11 1/8 in x 7 5/8 in; 28.2575 cm x 19.3675 cm; image: 9 1/8 in x 6 in; 23.1775 cm x 15.24 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | Recto: upr. l., upside down (graphite): 484; lwr. ctr., on base (in plate): ROMA; lwr. ctr., under image (red pencil): F.R.; lwr. r. (in plate): Fely Rops. Verso: lwr. l., upside down (graphite): R. 428 Le Vice Supreme . . . 75 / E 364; lwr. r., upside down (graphite): 5745.
| | Accession Number: | MH 1991.4.378
| | 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 a headless skeleton to the left dressed in tux, his monocled head under his right arm, holding open casket door for skeleton woman stepping out, her breasts exposed, wearing a long black gown and holding a fan; black birds flying around, both figures standing on a base with the she-wolf and skeletal Romulus and Remus pictured on it.
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Etching Link to share this object record:
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