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The Department of Iconography, responsible
for the collections of Prints and Photographs,
was originally founded to document life and
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customs in Spain; it contains objects in both
media that constitute major works of art in
their own right. |
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The prints afford a unique survey
of the graphic arts in Spain from
the seventeenth to the early
twentieth century. While the
collection contains incomparable
engravings and etchings by such
seventeenth-century artists as
Ribera, its strengths lie in the
eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
and include almost all of Goya's
prints. |
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Sleep of Reason
Francisco de Goya y Lucientes
(1746-1828)
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The Galician Milkmaid, 1925
Ruth Matilda Anderson
(1893-1983)
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The section of photographs contains
over 176,000 black and white images
documenting art, culture, and customs
in Spain and Latin America from 1850
onwards. During the 1920s, Hispanic
Society curators traveled throughout
these regions photographing urban and
rural scenes, thereby preserving a way
of life now irrevocably lost. |
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