This original etching and aquatint is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Miró" at the lower right image

It is also hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 25, in the lower left image. There were also 115 impressions and ten artist’s proofs numbered with Roman numerals and a further 21 hors commerce [out of trade] impressions inscribed with the alphabet from A to U.

This work is the tenth composition from the ‘Passage de l'égyptienne’ [The Egyptian Woman Passes] suite of twenty six etchings.

It was printed by Atelier Morsang, Paris in 1979 and published by Robert Lydie Dutrou, Paris in 1985.

The subject was created in the final years of the artist's life and the etchings were signed by the artist in his studio in Palma, Majorca in 1979. The works were published in 1985, after his death. The series was to illustrate the the book by Pieyre de Mandiargues