Photo: Allentown Art Museum,
Purchase: Gift of Paul K. Kania, 2019. (2019.19.1.2)
La muerte entra en casa
Date: 1963
Medium: Etching
Dimensions (cm.): 15.7 x 12.7 (platemark)
Variants: A variant exists as one of four variant images from A la orilla de este rio etched by Méndez on a single plate.
Alternate titles: Unknown
Published edition:
Plate 2 of the portfolio Diez aguafuertes, published 1964 in a signed edition of 20 on ivory wove. The portfolio contains 10 of Mendez's illustrations for A la orilla de este rio. Sheet dimensions of impressions in the edition are 33.0 x 25.0 cm. Impressions from the edition are signed in graphite, lower right, numbered in graphite, lower left.
Unknown number of impressions outside the edition.
Contemporary publication: Manuel Maples Arce, A la orilla de este rio (Madrid: Editorial Plenitud, 1964), p. 27
References: Information to be added
Cataloging note: This etching was one of 32 illustrations commissioned for Maples Arce's memoir. This image preceded chapter 2.
Catalogue record number: 655