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Mort de Pepe Illo. (Death of Pepe Illo) [Third Composition]; rejected plate [F] from the series "Tauromaquia" (Bullfighting)
Drawn and etched 1815–16; printed 1876
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished lavis and aquatint, drypoint, and burin; posthumous printing
Dimensions
Sheet: 32.2 x 48.6 cm (12 11/16 x 19 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.296
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 242, III, 3; Delteil 0262
DescriptionPosthumous printing, Paris, 1876 edition by Loizelet (H. III, 3).
This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 17 of the published series. It was first published with a French title in Paris by Loizelet in 1876 with the rest of the series with the title "La Taureaumachie/ Receuil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées à l'eau-forte/ Par Don Francisco Goya y Lucientes/ Paris/ Loizelet, Rue des Beaux-Arts, 12" or "La Tauromachie/ Receuil de Quarante Estampes/ Representant/ Différentes manieres et feintes de l'art de combattre les Taureaux..."
This plate was never published by Goya and the reverse was used to make plate 17 of the published series. It was first published with a French title in Paris by Loizelet in 1876 with the rest of the series with the title "La Taureaumachie/ Receuil de quarante estampes inventées et gravées à l'eau-forte/ Par Don Francisco Goya y Lucientes/ Paris/ Loizelet, Rue des Beaux-Arts, 12" or "La Tauromachie/ Receuil de Quarante Estampes/ Representant/ Différentes manieres et feintes de l'art de combattre les Taureaux..."
Marks
PDP Watermark Type: Fragment of Arches
ProvenanceW.G. Russell Allen (1882-1955), Boston; bequest April 1974