A woman walking towards the left and covering her face with her robe. Etching after S. Rosa.

  • Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673.
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3153816i
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About this work

Description

Her gesture is that of people wishing to avoid breathing in a miasma, e.g. people in a plague epidemic or attending the raising of Lazarus

Physical description

1 print : etching ; platemark 14.7 x 9.4 cm

Contributors

References note

Adam Bartsch, Le peintre graveur, Vienna 1820, vol XX, p. 291, after no. 84 ("Jeune femme marchant vers la gauche. Elle a la main droite enveloppée dans son manteau et portée sur la bouche, et de l'autre elle relève sa juppe. Le chiffre est à la droite d'en bas")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3153816i

Reproduction note

After one of the figures in Rosa's series called Figurine, published as models for artists

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