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No quiren. [No quieren.] (They do not want to); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 9


They don't want to
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863

Medium/Technique Etching, burnished aquatint, drypoint, burin, and burnisher; posthumous first edition
Dimensions Platemark: 15.6 x 20.9 cm (6 1/8 x 8 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 24.3 x 33.3 cm (9 9/16 x 13 1/8 in.)
Credit Line Museum purchase
Accession NumberM21914.9
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Harris 129, III, 1a; Delteil 0128; Gassier and Wilson 1005
DescriptionImpression with title "No quiren." later corrected "No quieren."

From posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and number, but before letteres corrected and before borderline completed (Harris III, 1, a). 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. Title page reproduced, P. Hofer, The Disasters of War, N.Y.: Dover, 1967, p. 4. There is a two page introduction.
Marks No watermark
Inscriptionsbc.:No quiren"
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911