print;
book
- Museum number
- 1975,1025.421.52
- Title
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Object: Madre infeliz! (Unhappy mother!)
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Series: Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War)
- Description
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Plate 50: dead woman being carried away, her small child left crying to right; from a bound album of working proofs, presented by the artist to Ceán Bermúdez. c.1811-1813
Etching, burnished aquatint and drypoint
- Production date
- 1811-1813 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 155 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Lit.: M.P. McDonald, exhib.cat., BM, London, `Renaissance to Goya: Prints and drawings from Spain`, 2012, fig.24, p.249.
The preparatory drawing for the print is in the Museo del Prado, Madrid (D.3974).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2012/13 Sept-Jan, London, British Museum, ‘Renaissance to Goya: Prints and Drawings from Spain’
- Associated events
- Associated Event: Peninsular War 1808-1814
- Acquisition date
- 1975
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1975,1025.421.52
- Joined objects
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Associated Group: G14960 (82 objects)