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Title: Que se rompe la cuerda
Alternative Title: May the cord break
Los Desastres de la Guerra, 1st edition, plate 77
Creator: Goya, Francisco de (1746-1828)
Date Created and/or Issued: 1863
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 in clerical robes balances on a slack tightrope above a crowd of onlookers.
Type: image
Format: Etching and aquatint on Paper
image/jpeg
6 7/8 in. x 8 11/16 in. (17.5 cm. x 22 cm.)
Identifier: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOROOT=/fgp&CISOFIELD1=object&CISOOP1=all&CISOBOX1=P74.77
P74.77
http://ccdl.claremont.edu/cdm/ref/collection/fgp/id/223
Language: Spanish
Subject: Satire (artistic device)
Etchings (printing process)
Clergy
Tightrope walking
Crowds
Audiences
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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