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With or without cause
Whether right or wrong
With or Without Justification
Con razon ó sin ella. (Rightly or Wrongly); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 2
With or without cause
Whether right or wrong
With or Without Justification
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Drawn and etched 1811-12; published 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching, lavis (direct bite), salt or sand aquatint, drypoint, burin, and burnishing and scraping; posthumous first edition
Dimensions
Platemark: 15 × 20.9 cm (5 7/8 × 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 × 33.3 cm (9 9/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Overall (dimenstion of bound type): 25.5 × 36.5 × 3 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 × 33.3 cm (9 9/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Overall (dimenstion of bound type): 25.5 × 36.5 × 3 cm (10 1/16 × 14 3/8 × 1 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange
Accession NumberM21914.2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets
Prints
Prints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 122, III, 1; Delteil 0121
DescriptionBrown/black ink, plate-tone. Plate bevelled.
Posthumous first edition, with letters and number and borderline added (Harris 122, III,1)
In bound copy of posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and number (Harris III, 1, a), but before corrections in some of the titles (Plates 9, 32,33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 47).
Made in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano for the Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, completed March, 1863.
Volume bound in brown morocco, with gold letters on spine: "GOYA/ LOS DESASTRES/ DE LA/ GUERRA" and below, "MADRID/ 1863". Volume: 25.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm. (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.).
The sheets are gold tipped.
There is a two page biographical introduction.
Posthumous first edition, with letters and number and borderline added (Harris 122, III,1)
In bound copy of posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and number (Harris III, 1, a), but before corrections in some of the titles (Plates 9, 32,33, 34, 35, 36, 39, 47).
Made in the workshop of Laurenciano Potenciano for the Real Academia de San Fernando, Madrid, completed March, 1863.
Volume bound in brown morocco, with gold letters on spine: "GOYA/ LOS DESASTRES/ DE LA/ GUERRA" and below, "MADRID/ 1863". Volume: 25.5 x 36.5 x 3 cm. (10 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 1 1/8 in.).
The sheets are gold tipped.
There is a two page biographical introduction.
Marks
No watermark
InscriptionsEngraved l.l. 36, u.l. 2, below image,: Con razon ó sin ella.
Provenance
Source unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.
Source unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.