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Disparate Desordenado (Disorderly Folly); from the "Disparates" series, plate 7

Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched 1815–17; published 1864

Medium/Technique Etching and aquatint; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 24.5 x 35 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/4 in.)
Sheet: 33.5 x 49.7 cm (13 3/16 x 19 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number1974.224g
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 254, III, 1; Delteil 0208
DescriptionDk. brown ink, plate tone, Bevel(slight)
From first posthumous edition, before number (H. III, 1).
Posthumous first edition published 1864 (Madrid, Real Academia de San Fernando). Title page and 18 prints of etching and aquatint, plates bevelled, before the number, and bound in green leather with gold letters, 34.8 x 50.7 cm. Cover inscribed in gold: LOS PROVERBIOS / DON FRANCISCO GOYA. Sheets are moderately textured, medium to moderately heavy, cream wove paper, many with the watermark J.G.O. and/or half-palmette.

The preferred series title "Disparates" (Follies) is derived from manuscript titles containing the word "Disparate" on fourteen of the working proofs, of which this is one. Beruete and others invented titles containing "Disparate" for the rest, except "Modo de volar" (no. 13).
InscriptionsEtched, vertically, l.r. "Goya" (reversed)
ProvenanceWilliam Bell Scott (no stamp)(1811-1890), England ; W.G. Russell Allen (1882-1955), Boston; bequest to MFA April 1974