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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Naturalia! (Naturalia non sunt turpia) [Natural! (private parts are nothing to be ashamed of)]
Type:Print
Materials:Heliogravure on cream wove paper
Place Made:Europe
Measurements:mat: 20 1/16 in x 16 1/8 in; 50.95875 cm x 40.9575 cm; sheet: 18 1/16 in x 12 1/16 in; 45.87875 cm x 30.63875 cm; plate: 12 7/8 in x 9 5/8 in; 32.7025 cm x 24.4475 cm; image: 11 1/8 in x 7 15/16 in; 28.2575 cm x 20.16125 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Unsigned. Recto: upr. r. (in plate): Naturalia; ctr. r. (in plate): Naturalia / non sunt [?] Turpia; ctr. r. (in plate): [text in French by Baudelaire]; lwr. ctr. (graphite): Rops; lwr. r. (in plate): Dux Malorum Formina! / (Senique la Tragique). Verso: lwr. r. (graphite): E. No. 1025 (Hel.).
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.335
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 bare-breasted woman with corset and hat on, her lower half skeletal with a drape around her hips; she is holding aloft in her right hand a cat's head spewing fire. Text by Baudelaire to right of figure; title above figure.

Subjects:
Photogravures

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