Christ cries when he sees a young woman who has died during an illegal abortion, from the series "Christ in New York"
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![Per tal variare Natura e bella. (Through such variety nature is beautiful.) Alea parva Nuces, et non damnosa videtur: Saepe tamen pueris abstulit illa nates. (Gambling with nuts is thought a harmless game; but it has often raised the boys’ buttocks [=boys have been beated on the buttocks]), part II, plate 12, from "Archetypa Studiaque Patris Georgii Hoefnagelii"](/internal/media/dispatcher/16933/thumbnail)
Christ cries when he sees a young woman who has died during an illegal abortion, from the series "Christ in New York"
Maker
Duane Michals
(b. 1932, McKeesport, Pennsylvania)
Date1981
MediumGelatin silver print
Dimensionssheet: 8 in. x 10 in. (20.3 cm x 25.4 cm); image: 5 in. x 7 1/2 in. (12.7 cm x 19 cm)
ClassificationPHOTOGRAPHS
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number1984.31.2
Status
Not on viewRightsCopyright is retained in accordance with U.S. Copyright laws
Photo creditDavis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
Francisco de Goya
ca. 1799
possibly Jacob HoefnagelTheodor de Bry (and possibly workshop)after Joris Hoefnagel
published 1592