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Será lo mismo. (It will be the same); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 21.

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished lavis, drypoint, and burin; on laid paper, working proof
Dimensions Platemark: 14.8 x 21.8 cm (5 13/16 x 8 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 22 x 31.3 cm (8 11/16 x 12 5/16 in.)
Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1646
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 141, I, 3; Delteil 0140; Gassier & Wilson 1027
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped? No bevel.
Working proof before final number [21] and letters, before lavis completely removed from borders and before additional drypoint and burin (H. I, 3).
Marks Verso: MFA stamp in brown ink (Lugt 282)
Inscriptionsetched l.l.: Goya (twice, once covered with etching); engraved, l.l. 25; u.r. within pm, in graphite: 21.
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)