About this artwork
The text on this print translates as, “Misery offers man suicide as the end of all his evils. Exhausted by pain, he staggers and would fall; faith comes to his rescue and supports him.”
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Charles Rambert
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Title
- Plate Seven from Misery
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1851
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Medium
- Lithograph in black on cream China paper, laid down on ivory wove paper (chine collé)
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Dimensions
- Image: 23.9 × 17.2 cm (9 7/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Primary support: 27.2 × 19.5 cm (10 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.); Secondary support: 43.2 × 29.7 cm (17 1/16 × 11 3/4 in.)
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Credit Line
- Suzanne Lord Folds Acquisition Fund
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Reference Number
- 2010.522.8
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/207053/manifest.json