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Maker(s):Rops, Felicien
Culture:Belgian (1833-1898)
Title:Initiation sentimentale: Diaboli virtus in Lombis! (St. Augustin); Sentimental Initiation
Date Made:1887
Type:Print
Materials:Softground etching on white wove paper
Place Made:Europe; France; Paris
Measurements:mat: 27 15/16 in x 21 15/16 in; 70.96125 cm x 55.72125 cm; sheet: 7 5/16 in x 5 3/8 in; 18.57375 cm x 13.6525 cm; image: 6 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 16.51 cm x 8.89 cm
Narrative Inscription:  Recto: upr. l. (in plate): Fely Rops; lwr. l. (graphite): Efor I; lwr. ctr. (graphite): 1067; lwr. ctr. and r. (in plate): Diaboli Virtu / in / Lombis?... / (St. Augustin); lwr. r. (graphite): E. no. 516; lwr. r. (graphite):6 -; lwr. r. (graphite): Rops / [undecipherable] originale.
Accession Number:  MH 1991.4.382
Credit Line:Bequest of Helene Brosseau Black (Class of 1931)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
This print depcits a butterfly with public bone body at bottom of image with female nude coming out of public bone; she turns into skeleton at waist, has wings and is holding a man's head up in her right hand; tree in background; "Diaboli Virtus in Lombi (St. Augustin.)" at bottom of image.

Subjects:
Etching

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