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No quieren. (They do not want to); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 9.
They don't want to
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; whole series first published posthumously 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching, aquatint, drypoint, burin and burnisher; posthumous trial proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.6 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 26.1 x 34.5 cm (10 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
Sheet: 26.1 x 34.5 cm (10 1/4 x 13 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase with funds by exchange from the bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1973.732.9
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 129, I, 2; Delteil 0128
DescriptionRed/brown ink, light plate-tone, no bevel.
Posthumous trial proof, with numbers, before letters of title, before borderline, with aquatint cleaned from plate edges and considerable additional burnishing and burin.
Mounted in an album of posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862; 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". 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
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 vertically:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Posthumous trial proof, with numbers, before letters of title, before borderline, with aquatint cleaned from plate edges and considerable additional burnishing and burin.
Mounted in an album of posthumous trial proofs, printed 1862; 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". 42.5 x 34.5 x 5.5 cm.
The album sheets are red tipped. The album paper is cream wove.
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 vertically:
LOS DESASTRES DE LA GUERRA / COLECCION DE LAMINAS / INVENTADAS Y GRABADAS AL AGUAFUERTE. / POR / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. / MADRID / 1810
Tipped in on next two fly leaves are notes by William Stirling (1864) and Archibald Stirling (1925) on blue writing paper.
Marks
G O [fragment of G]
InscriptionsEngraved l.l., 29[struck through]; engraved u.l. 9; in graphite, u.r. inside pm. 9, below image, outside pm., No quieren.
ProvenanceCharles Blanc; bought for 20 pounds from Colnaghi, April 1863 by William Stirling, Keir (later Stirling-Maxwell); Archibald Stirling; Mr. and Mrs. Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA; purchased from R. M. Light, Boston, June 12, 1974 (original vote June 13, 1973).