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Esto es la verdadero (This is the Truth) ("Disasters of War", no. 82)


Disasters of War, Plate 82 (caprichos enfáticos)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1814–15

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, touched with black crayon, working proof
Dimensions Platemark: 17.5 x 21.5 cm (6 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.0 x 21.5 cm (8 11/16 x 8 7/16 in.)
Credit Line 1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1696
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 202; Delteil D. 201
DescriptionWorking proof, before no. and additional work in burin and burnished aquatint, before salt aquatint removed from plate edges
Not published in the posthumous first edition
Marks No watermark
Inscriptionsu.r. within pm. in graphite: 82
ProvenanceValentín Carderera y Solano (?), Madrid (1796-1880); Sir William Stirling (later Stirling-Maxwell), Bart of Keir (1818-1878); Brigadier-General Archibald Stirling, of Keir; Colnaghi, London; Purchased by MFA, Boston (Lugt 282), through Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984); Purchased Sept. 13, 1951.