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What a Tailor Can Do! (Lo que puede un sastre!) Caprichos 52
Lo que puede un Sastre! (What a tailor can do!); Caprichos 52
What a Tailor Can Do! (Lo que puede un sastre!) Caprichos 52
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
1797–1798
Medium/Technique
Etching, aquatint with burnishing, drypoint, and additions in black chalk (working proof)
Dimensions
Platemark: 21.8 x 15.1 cm (8 9/16 x 5 15/16 in.)
Sheet: 31.9 x 22.3 cm (12 9/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 31.9 x 22.3 cm (12 9/16 x 8 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by William A. Coolidge
Accession Number1973.717
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 087, I, 2; Delteil 089: Gassier & Wilson 555
State
working proof
DescriptionWorking proof, before letters and number and before additional etching, touched with chalk (H. 87, I, 2).
Signed
unsigned
InscriptionsUpper right in brown ink: p 52 and 2 (within platemark).
Later marks and inscriptions in various hands: U.l. in graphite: 52; l..r. in graphite: L.D 89, I (undescribed) De que feut un tailleur; Lr.: C 19767 [Colnaghi stock no.] [ and in another hand: D. 89, I [or] d
Later marks and inscriptions in various hands: U.l. in graphite: 52; l..r. in graphite: L.D 89, I (undescribed) De que feut un tailleur; Lr.: C 19767 [Colnaghi stock no.] [ and in another hand: D. 89, I [or] d
ProvenanceColnaghi, London; 1930 ? Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984) and his wife, Frances L. Hofer (b. 1908–d. 1978), Cambridge, MA; 1974, sold by Mr. and Mrs. Hofer, through R. M. Light (dealer), Boston, to the MFA. (original vote June 13, 1973)