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Fuerte cosa es! (This is too much); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 31.
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin (?), and burnishing scratches
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.5 x 20.8 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 15.1 x 20.2 cm (5 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 15.1 x 20.2 cm (5 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1655
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 151, I, 3; Delteil 0150
DescriptionWorking proof, before title and final number, before additional drypoint, and before borderline completed and before aquatint burnished from plate edges (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)