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And they are like wild beasts
Y son fieras. (And they are wild beasts); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 5
And they are like wild beasts
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Drawn and etched about 1811-1812, published 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching, burnished aquatint, and drypoint; posthumous first edition
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.6 x 20.8 cm (6 1/8 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 x 33.3 cm (9 9/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 x 33.3 cm (9 9/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange
Accession NumberM21914.5
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets
Prints
Prints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 125, III, 1; Delteil 0124
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
No watermark
InscriptionsEngraved l.l.: 28 (not inked); u.l.: 5; poathumously engraved: Y son fieras
Provenance
Source unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.
Source unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.