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Title
Devota profesion
Alternative Title
Devout profession
Los Caprichos, 1st edition, plate 70
Creator
Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)
Date Created and/or Issued
1799
Publication Information
Pomona College (Claremont, Calif.). Museum of Art
Contributing Institution
Claremont Colleges Library
Collection
Francisco Goya Prints
Rights Information
Physical rights are retained by Pomona College Museum of Art. Copyright is retained in accordance with U S Copyright Laws.
Description
A man with pointed ears sits on the shoulders of a part-man part-donkey. He reads from a book held by two men with donkey's ears wearing clerical robes who sit on a large hawk or eagle. Beneath the bird are two inhuman faces.
Type
image
Format
Etching and aquatint on Paper
image/jpeg
8 1/4 in. x 6 1/2 in. (21 cm. x 16.5 cm.)
Identifier
http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOROOT=/fgp&CISOFIELD1=object&CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=P74.176
P74.176
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fgp/id/14
Language
Spanish
Subject
Satire (artistic device)
Etchings (printing process)
Books
Sitting
Imaginary creatures
Birds
Donkeys
Catholic Church
Time Period
Early Modern (18th-19th centuries)
Place
Europe
Source
Scan taken from a slide.
Relation
Western Prints and Drawings
Francisco Goya Prints - https://ccdl.claremont.edu/digital/collection/fgp

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