print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,1109.1.2863
- Title
- Object: La muerte del justo
- Description
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Illustration for Mora's "Meditaciones Poeticas" (1826); the plate was originally made to illustrate Blair's "Grave", in which it was titled "The Death of The Good Old Man"; an interior; a bearded man is lying on a matress; four mourners kneel praying at his head, three at his feet; in the foreground, a Bible is open at the title-page of the New Testament, held open by his right hand; in the background the man's soul is flying out the window on a cloud, escorted by two winged angels; 1826 edition. 1808
Etching
- Production date
- 1808
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres (trimmed within platemark)
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Width: 274 millimetres (trimmed within platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This impression is not in "Meditaciones Poeticas", but has been bound in volume three of an extra-illustrated set of Royal Academy Catalogues from 1769 to 1849, compiled by James Hughes Anderdon.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Meditaciones Poeticas (illustrated in this edition of the print)
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Associated Title: The Grave (print designed to illustrate this work)
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,1109.1.2863