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Sad Presentiments of What is to Come
Sad Forebodings of What Must Come to Pass
Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer. (Sad forebodings of what is to happen); from Los Desastres de la Guerra (The Disasters of War), plate 1, mounted in a bound album
Sad Presentiments of What is to Come
Sad Forebodings of What Must Come to Pass
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1813-15; this set printed about 1862; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching and burnished aquatint; posthumous trial proof, on cream wove paper, mounted in a bound album
Dimensions
Platemark: 17.8 × 22 cm (7 × 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.1 × 35.2 cm (10 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)
Overall dimensions of bound volume: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.1 × 35.2 cm (10 1/4 × 13 7/8 in.)
Overall dimensions of bound volume: 42.5 × 34.5 × 5.5 cm (16 3/4 × 13 9/16 × 2 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds donated by Mrs. Maurice Young and the Samuel Putnam Avery Fund
Accession Number1973.732.1
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 121, II, 1; Delteil 0120
Description
Posthumous trial proof, before letters of title and before drypoint (Harris II, 1).
Red/brown ink, plate tone. No bevel
Mounted in an album of 80 posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862, for the Academia de San Fernando, probably in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano.
Album: 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album bound in brown marbled (?) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine: "LOS/ DESASTRES/ DE/ LA GUERRA/ POR/ F. GOYA" and below, "MADRID/ 1810".
On front cover: decorative cartouche with the letters: C A N C F O R W A R D.
On back cover: gold decoration of interwoven circles with Latin mottos (?), surrounded by "NON · MORTALE · QUOD · OPTO".
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
Each album sheet: 32.5 x 41.2 cm.
Inside front cover is large bookplate of William Stirling, the sticker of Frances Hofer and various cataloguing notes in graphite that continue onto first flyleaf (the notes are by P. Hofer and E. A. Sayre and others).
Title page, printed in letterpress:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA. / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
(This titlepage is rare, or perhaps unique)
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Posthumous trial proof, before letters of title and before drypoint (Harris II, 1).
Red/brown ink, plate tone. No bevel
Mounted in an album of 80 posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862, for the Academia de San Fernando, probably in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano.
Album: 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album bound in brown marbled (?) calf with gold letters and decoration. On spine: "LOS/ DESASTRES/ DE/ LA GUERRA/ POR/ F. GOYA" and below, "MADRID/ 1810".
On front cover: decorative cartouche with the letters: C A N C F O R W A R D.
On back cover: gold decoration of interwoven circles with Latin mottos (?), surrounded by "NON · MORTALE · QUOD · OPTO".
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
Each album sheet: 32.5 x 41.2 cm.
Inside front cover is large bookplate of William Stirling, the sticker of Frances Hofer and various cataloguing notes in graphite that continue onto first flyleaf (the notes are by P. Hofer and E. A. Sayre and others).
Title page, printed in letterpress:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA. / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
(This titlepage is rare, or perhaps unique)
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Marks
No watermark
InscriptionsIn graphite u.r. corner: 1: below image, within pm: Tristes presentimientos de lo que ha de acontecer.
Provenance
Charles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi (or Christie's), April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).
Charles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi (or Christie's), April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased through R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).