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Las mugeres dan valor. (The women give courage); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 4 (bound set)
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Drawn and etched about 1811-12; published 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, lavis (direct tonal etching), drypoint, and burnisher; posthumous first edition
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.5 × 20.5 cm (6 1/8 × 8 1/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 × 33.3 cm (9 9/16 × 13 1/8 in.)
Overall (dimensions of the bound set)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 (dimensions of the bound set)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 NumberM21914.4
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets
Prints
Prints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 124, III, 1; Delteil 0123
DescriptionWarm black ink, pale plate-tone.
In bound copy of posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and numbers (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.
In bound copy of posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and numbers (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
Watermark: Half-palmette
InscriptionsEngraved u.l. 4; l.l.:35 or 54(very faint); below image, Las mugeres dan valor.
ProvenanceSource unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.