El caballo llamando hombre (The Horse Called Man)

© Francisco Toledo

El caballo llamando hombre (The Horse Called Man)

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El caballo llamando hombre (The Horse Called Man),

1985

Francisco Toledo, 1940–2019, born Juchitán de Zaragoza, Mexico; died Oaxaca de Juárez, Mexico; active Oaxaca de Juárez
x1992-178

Information

Title
El caballo llamando hombre (The Horse Called Man)
Dates

1985

Maker
Francisco Toledo
Medium
Color etching and drypoint
Dimensions
plate: 25.2 x 37 cm (9 15/16 x 14 9/16 in.) sheet: 38.2 x 56.9 cm (15 1/16 x 22 3/8 in.) frame: 40.5 × 63.4 × 4.1 cm (15 15/16 × 24 15/16 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958
Object Number
x1992-178
Place Made

North America, Mexico, Oaxaca, Oaxaca City

Signatures
Signed in graphite, lower left: Toledo
Inscription
in graphite, lower right: 15/75
Culture
Mexican
Type
etchings, prints
Materials
paper (fiber product)
Techniques
etching (printing process), drypoint
Subject
horses, abstraction, figures (representations), men, women

David L. Meginnity, Class of 1958, Santa Monica, CA and New Smyrna Beach, FL, by 1992; gift to the Princeton University Art Museum, 1992.

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