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Tan barbara le seguridad como el delito. (The custody is as barbarous as the crime)

(Spanish, 1746–1828)
about 1810–14
Medium/TechniqueEtching; posthumous impression
DimensionsPlatemark: 11 x 8.5 cm (4 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 42.4 x 30.9 cm (16 11/16 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit LineGift of Sylvester Rosa Koehler
Accession number98.1844
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
ProvenanceBy 1888, Frederick Keppel & Co., Inc., New York; 1888, sold by Keppel to Sylvester Rosa Koehler (b. 1837 - d. 1900), Leipzig, Boston, and Littleton, NH; 1898, gift of Koehler to the MFA. (Accession Date: March 23, 2018)

NOTE:
Sylvester Rosa Koehler was the first Print Curator at the MFA and served from 1887 until his death in 1900. He deposited his collection at the MFA in 1895-1896. The gift of Mr. Koehler's collection was accepted by the Trustees of the MFA on October 20, 1898.
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