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Que valor! (What courage!); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 7

Drawn and etched 1811-12, published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, drypoint, burin, burnishing, and aquatint; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 15.8 x 20.9 cm (6 1/4 x 8 1/4 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 NumberM21914.7
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrintsBound sets
Prints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 127, III, 1; Delteil 0126
DescriptionWith letters and number, with aquatint, and additional drypoint and burnishing (Harris III, 1).
Warm black ink, plate-tone added Plate looks bevelled.

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 u.l. 7; below image, Que valor!
Provenance
Source unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.