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Que valor! (What courage!); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 7
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, 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.)
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
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints – Bound sets
Prints
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.
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.
Source unknown; purchased by MFA June, 1911.