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This Is How It Happened (Así sucedió.) Disasters of War 47
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1811–1812
Medium/Technique
Etching and aquatint with burnishing (working proof)
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.6 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.9 x 32 cm (9 x 12 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.9 x 32 cm (9 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1671
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
GW 1069; H 167, I, 3; D 0166
DescriptionWorking proof, before final number, title, before additional drypoint and burin, and burnishing of edges and burnishing of etching (H. I, 3).
Marks
No watermark
InscriptionsUpper right in graphite pencil: 47; lower left in etching: 33.
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)