Arab Mourning
date: label: Date made
content: 1866
name: label: original artist
content: Fortuny y Carbo, Mariano
label: publisher
content: Goupil & Cie.
label: graphic artist
content: Delatre
notes: label: Description
content: Mariano Fortuny captured the intense grief of an Arab mourning a dead friend in this stark 1866 etching<i> Arabe Veillant le Corps de son Ami</i>.
label: Description
content: Fortuny had witnessed Moroccan life at first hand during several visits, the first in 1859, when he accompanied the troops of Spanish General Juan Prim. A nineteenth-century critic praised Fortuny’s scratchy (<i>egratigné</i>) and gritty (<i>grignoté</i>) etching technique as very original and of the greatest interest. Another critic commented on the remarkable effect of color in the print. Even in black and white, Fortuny’s much admired sense of color is evident.
label: Description
content: This print is one of twenty-eight Fortuny etchings issued by the Parisian publisher Goupil after the artist’s death in Rome at age thirty-six. Stephen Ferris, a great admirer of Fortuny, owned impressions of many of his prints.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place drawn
content: Italy: Latian, Rome
label: place printed
content: France: Île-de-France, Paris
topic: label: Subject
content: Death
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Ferris Collection
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content: Communications
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content: Art
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: GA.16763
label: catalog number
content: 16763
label: accession number
content: 119780
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
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content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: image: 19 cm x 38.5 cm; 7 1/2 in x 15 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 21 cm x 41 cm; 8 1/4 in x 16 1/8 in
label: Measurements
content: sheet: 28.5 cm x 46.5 cm; 11 1/4 in x 18 5/16 in