The sleep of reason produces monsters

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The sleep of reason produces monsters

Alternate Title: El sueño de la razon produce monstruos
Edition: First edition
Portfolio: Los Caprichos
Plate: 43
Spain, 1799
Prints; etchings
Etching and aquatint
Sheet: 12 × 8 in. (30.48 × 20.32 cm) Image: 7 1/8 × 4 3/4 in. (18.1 × 12.07 cm)
Paul Rodman Mabury Trust Fund (63.11.43)
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Papanikolas, Theresa.  Doctrinal Nourishment:  Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor.  Los Angeles:  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2009.