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Por una nabaja. [Por una navaja.] (For [carrying] a knife); from "Los Desastres de la Guerra" (Disasters of War), plate 34
Francisco Goya y Lucientes (Spanish, 1746–1828)
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Printer: Workshop of Laurenciano (Laureano) Potenciano
Drawn and etched about 1810–14; published 1863
Medium/Technique
Etching, drypoint, burin, and burnishing; posthumous first edition
Dimensions
Platemark: 15.7 x 20.8 cm (6 3/16 x 8 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.5 x 33.5 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.)
Sheet: 24.5 x 33.5 cm (9 5/8 x 13 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Harvey D. Parker Collection—Harvey Drury Parker Fund, by exchange
Accession NumberM21914.34
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Harris 154, III, 1, a; Delteil 0153; Gassier and Wilson 1049
DescriptionBrown ink, plate-tone. Bevel.
Impression with title "por una nabaja" later corrected to "por una navaja".
From posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and number, with borderline, before correction in letters (b to j of navaja) (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.
Impression with title "por una nabaja" later corrected to "por una navaja".
From posthumous first edition (1863), with letters and number, with borderline, before correction in letters (b to j of navaja) (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
InscriptionsEngraved, u.l. 34, l.l, 1(uninked), bc: "por una navaba"
ProvenancePurchased 6/1/1911