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Para eso habeis nacido. (This is what you were born for); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 12.
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14
Medium/Technique
Etching, lavis, drypoint, and burin; working proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 16.3 x 23.7 cm (6 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 x 32 cm (8 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.5 x 32 cm (8 7/8 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1633
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 132, I, 3; Delteil 0131
DescriptionWarm black ink, clean-wiped on unworked highlighted areas of the figures. No bevel
Working proof, before final number and letters, with lavis and additional etching and burin (H. I, 3).
Working proof, before final number and letters, with lavis and additional etching and burin (H. I, 3).
Marks
No watermark
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)