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Siempre sucede. (It always happens.); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos (Fatal Consequences of the bloody war in Spain with Bonaparte. And other emphatic caprices [Disasters of War], plate 8.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1813-14

Medium/Technique Etching and drypoint, working proof
Dimensions Platemark: 17.8 x 21.9 cm (7 x 8 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 21.8 x 32 cm (8 9/16 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1628
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 128, I, 1; Delteil 0127
Description
Working proof, before number and letters, before drypoint, and before the plate cleaned up with the burnishing (H. I, 1).

Black ink. No bevel.
Marks No watermark
InscriptionsU.r. just outside pm. in graphite, 8: in corner, in black chalk, 8 (written over 2 or 9)
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)