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What a Great Deed! With Corpses! (Grande hazaña! Con muertos!) Disasters of War 39
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1811–1812
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnishing, and direct etching (working proof)
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.6 x 20.8 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 19 x 30.5 cm (7 1/2 x 12 in.)
Sheet: 19 x 30.5 cm (7 1/2 x 12 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1663
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 159, I, 2; Delteil 0158; G & W W 1055
DescriptionWorking proof, before numbers, title, before drypoint and before lavis removed from plate edges
Marks
No watermark
InscriptionsUpper right in black crayon: 39; lower left, in etching: Goya
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)