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Para eso habeis nacido. (This is what you were born for); Fatales consequencias de la sangrienta guerra en España con Buonaparte. Y otros caprichos enfaticos [Disasters of War], plate 12.
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Drawn and etched about 1810–14
Medium/Technique
Etching, drypoint, and burin; working proof
Dimensions
Platemark: 16.3 x 23.7 cm (6 7/16 x 9 5/16 in.)
Sheet: 22.3 x 32 cm (8 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.3 x 32 cm (8 3/4 x 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
1951 Purchase Fund
Accession Number51.1632
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 132, I, 1; Delteil 0131
DescriptionBlack ink, clean-wiped. No bevel
Working proof, before numbers and letters, and before lavis, additional etching and additional burin (H. I, 1).
Working proof, before numbers and letters, and before lavis, additional etching and additional burin (H. I, 1).
Marks
ROMANI
InscriptionsNo inscriptions in plate; u.r. in graphite: 12.
Provenance1863, sold by Valentín Carderera y Solano (b. 1796–d. 1880), Madrid, to Sir William Stirling Maxwell (b. 1818–d. 1878), Keir House, Scotland; 1878, by inheritance to his son, Brigadier General Archibald Stirling (b. 1867–d. 1931), Keir House; 1931, by inheritance to his son, Lieutenant Colonel William Joseph Stirling (b. 1911–d. 1983), Keir House; September 13, 1951, sold by William Joseph Stirling, through Colnaghi & Co. and Philip Hofer (b. 1898–d. 1984), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 13, 1951)