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No se puede mirar. (One can't look.); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 26.


One Can't Look (No se puede mirar.) Disasters of War 26
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
about 1811–1812

Medium/Technique Etching, direct etching or fine grain aquatint with burnishing, textural etching, and drypoint (working proof)
Dimensions Platemark: 14.5 x 21 cm (5 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.6 x 31.6 cm (8 7/8 x 12 7/16 in.)
Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1651
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 146; Delteil 145; Gassier & Wilson 1037
DescriptionBlack ink. No bevel.
Working proof, before printed title below and and number "26" at u..l. (H. I, 3).
Marks Verso: MFA stamp in brown ink (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsUpper right in graphite pencil: 26; lower left in etching: 27
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)