The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of July 17, 2026

A vertically oriented etching in black ink on beige paper depicts a dense urban landscape. In the foreground, a dark barge rests in the water below a stone quay. Figures with wavy outlines carry a stretcher, while a crowd leans over a high wall. Fine, hatched lines define tall buildings in the background. Thick, dark smoke and a lighter plume billow from chimneys across a sky filled with thin, horizontal lines.

La Morgue

c. 1881

Edmond Gosselin

(French)
France, 19th century
etching
The Milton Curtiss Rose Collection in memory of Evelyn Curtiss Rose 1959.377
Catalogue raisonneĢ: Delteil & Wright 36 copy
Location: Not on view
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1959.377