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The Fall of Icarus / Godoy, the presumptious, falls under the heat of the beloved sun Fernando

Artist: Unidentified Guatemala Artist
Title: The Fall of Icarus / Godoy, the presumptious, falls under the heat of the beloved sun Fernando
Date: 1809
Medium: Engraving. Plate 30 of Guatemala por Fernando VII el día 12 de diciembre de 1808. Attributed to Antonio Juarros (ca. 1775 – 1814). Published in Guatemala by Ignacio Beteta (1757-1827) in 1809.
Photo Source: Library of Congress Website
Note: In 1714, Bernard Picart engraved a rather different copy, in reverse, of the source, and published it in Amsterdam in the 1733 (Dutch) version of the Tableaux du Temple des Muses.
Item: 2629B