/internal/media/dispatcher/748433/resize%25253Aformat%25253DthumbnailSoldiers Frightened by a Phantom [Disparate de Miedo] (Folly of Fear); from the "Disparates" series, posthumously published as Los Proverbios, plate 2Drawn and etched about 1815–19; printed about 1863–64Francisco Goya y LucientesPlatemark: 24.5 x 35.3 cm (9 5/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 35 x 48.8 cm (13 3/4 x 19 3/16 in.)Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis (?), emery stone, and tonal scratching; on wove paper with half-palmette watermark; posthumous trial proof for the first edition.Gift of Miss Katherine Eliot Bullard14.17910Dark brown ink, plate tone, with bevel
Posthumous trial proof before the first edition for the Academia de San Fernando, about 1863-64 (H. II, 2, with horizontal scratch through phantom).
The first edition with the title of Los Proverbios was published in 1864,
The preferred series title "Disparates" (Follies) is derived from Goya's manuscript titles containing the word "Disparate" on fourteen of the working proofs. Beruete and others invented titles containing "Disparate" for the rest, including this one, except "Modo de volar" (no. 13).Prints35.00000000009456901