Serpientes (Serpents); Prophecy of Quetzalcoatl
José Clemente Orozco, Mexican, 1883 - 1949
1935
Drypoint on wove paper
7/10
Plate: 5 3/4 × 7 1/8 in. (14.6 × 18.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 1/4 × 26 3/4 in. (51.5 × 68 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Adolph Weil Jr., Class of 1935, in honor of Churchill P. Lathrop
PR.978.160
Geography
Place Made: Mexico, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in graphite, lower left: 7/10; lower right: Edicion / Clemente Orozco
Course History
ARTH 7, Orozco, Mary Coffey, Spring 2014
ARTH 72, Mexican Muralism, Mary Coffey, Spring 2015
SPAN 7.05, Transforming Public Space: Mural Art in Mexico and the United States, Douglas Moody, Winter 2019
ARTH 40.04, LACS 30.09, Mexicanidad: Constructing and Dismantling Mexican National Identity, Mary Coffey, Winter 2019
Publication History
Timothy Rub, Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, Kelly Pask, "A Gift to the College: The Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Weil Jr. Collection of Master Prints", Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1998, listed, p.110, no. 224.
Provenance
Adolph Weil, Jr. (1915-1995), Montgomery, Alabama; given to present collection, 1978.
Catalogue Raisonne
C. Orozco, Catalogo completo de la obra grafica de Orozco, 1970, no. 33.
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